Large ZFS arrays?

Shane Ambler FreeBSD at ShaneWare.Biz
Mon Jun 16 08:56:24 UTC 2014


On 16/06/2014 17:12, krad wrote:
> its also worth maybe looking at a distributed  file system as well such as
> moosefs or afs. This may or may not be appropriate for your workload so
> careful consideration would be needed. However if its right for you there
> are are potentially a lot of benefits. This can obviously be underpinned
> with zfs, but would require multiple machines to make it worth while.
> 
> 
> On 15 June 2014 16:28, Dennis Glatting <freebsd at pki2.com> wrote:
> 
>> Anyone built a large ZFS infrastructures (PB size) and care to share
>> words of wisdom?

ixsystems haven't published results of their tests yet - 3/4 PB
http://www.ixsystems.com/whats-new/terafiler-preview/

You could try contacting them or keep an eye out for the results, they
planned to dismantle it June so we should see results soon.



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