Re: ZFS, longterm archive of data and Debian

2013-09-26 Thread Matthias Meyer
Nick Lidakis wrote: > I have been Googling for the last week on file systems like ZFS and the > best way to store and preserve data that needs to be read on a regular > basis. I've read many conflicting opinions, in particular about ZFS, and > was hoping to get some opinions on this list. > > Lik

Re: ZFS, longterm archive of data and Debian

2013-09-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:08:14AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > It's not clear to me what problem you are trying to solve and why ZFS > > > would be > > > a good solution for it. The elep

Re: ZFS, longterm archive of data and Debian

2013-09-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Nick Lidakis wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:08:14AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > It's not clear to me what problem you are trying to solve and why ZFS would > > be > > a good solution for it. The elephant in the room, with regards your use > > case, > > is backups,

Re: ZFS, longterm archive of data and Debian

2013-09-24 Thread Mr Smiley
On 24/09/13 10:08, Jonathan Dowland wrote: It's not clear to me what problem you are trying to solve and why ZFS would be a good solution for it. The elephant in the room, with regards your use case, is backups, IMHO. That said: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:07:57PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: With

Re: ZFS, longterm archive of data and Debian

2013-09-24 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:08:14AM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > It's not clear to me what problem you are trying to solve and why ZFS would be > a good solution for it. The elephant in the room, with regards your use case, > is backups, IMHO. That said: Long term integrity of the data, i.e.

Re: ZFS, longterm archive of data and Debian

2013-09-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
It's not clear to me what problem you are trying to solve and why ZFS would be a good solution for it. The elephant in the room, with regards your use case, is backups, IMHO. That said: On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:07:57PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > With one user reading one FLAC file at a time f

ZFS, longterm archive of data and Debian

2013-09-23 Thread Nick Lidakis
I have been Googling for the last week on file systems like ZFS and the best way to store and preserve data that needs to be read on a regular basis. I've read many conflicting opinions, in particular about ZFS, and was hoping to get some opinions on this list. Like many music lovers I've ditched