I would not be just switching filesystems, I’d be building out a new storage cluster on new hardware... A single ZFS-based NFS server has been good up until recently, but now is running out of steam in both space and I/O performance... It’s time to do the next thing, trying to decide what that will be now :)
On Monday, March 18, 2019 1:19 PM, Alex Chekholko said: >(resending to list) >Hey Will, > >I have heard good things about BeeGFS but have not yet met anyone using it. > >Try it out and let us know! :) > >Since you are using ZFS now, why do you want to switch? >Do you want HA? You can do two-server active/passive ZFS HA with e.g. >https://github.com/ewwhite/zfs-ha/wiki . >Do you want to scale out to many servers? It may be fine to just add a pile of >JBODs to one system... > >If you want higher performance, I don't think you will get higher performance >from the same hardware just by switching filesystems. > >Regards, >Alex
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