Thanks for your views, the serial storage (tape mostly?) problem is news to me but otherwise I concur.
I was mostly asking about success and market presence, i e is ZFS being widely used in any non-Sun/Oracle part of the workplace? Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5 Den 12 jan 2015 12:38 skrev "Jonathan Adams" <[email protected]>: > ZFS is the most advanced filesystem on the planet IMHO, we have been using > it for 10+ years in production. > > There are reasons not to use it, but they are usually limitations not > related to ZFS itself. > > We used to use tape backup for our old UFS systems, and it came as a shock > when we couldn't use tapes with ZFS easily ... but we just bit the bullet > and realised that tapes were a dead technology, and just went for ZFS > snapshots and keeping offline'd disks in the fireproof safe. > > There is some fragmentation, Solaris 11 has an incompatible version of ZFS, > at least for now. > > ZFS on Linux doesn't come compiled into the kernel by default, which means > that you can't have a ZFS root and update the kernel at the same time, > without being _very_ _careful_! > > ZFS on USB in Solaris is a little flaky, but that's not down to the ZFS, > it's down to the USB support, and when the ZFS root system fails the whole > system is unrecoverable. > > ... > > Seriously though, ZFS does more than any other file system, it is more > robust and it's easier to manage ... all other filesystems are useless in > comparison. > > BTRFS, don't go there, it's a poor man's ZFS, the Microsoft "equivalent" > likewise shouldn't even be in the same sentence. > > Just my 2cents. > > Jon > > On 12 January 2015 at 11:13, Hans J. Albertsson < > [email protected] > > wrote: > > > I know FreeNAS has turned to ZFS only, OSv is ZFS only, and NAS > Appliances > > running ZFS turn up in unexpected places, but is it really anything like > an > > even half-baked "success", at least of sorts??? > > > > A "friend" (long time, extremely irritating acquantance) claims ZFS is a > > complete failure, and will just disappear...... > > > > I realised I had no idea at all! > > > > Anyone able to shed some light on this?? > > > > ZFS should be the rage of the town, I think, but maybe I'm just being > > fundamentalistic.... > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > openindiana-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
