23 Jun
2008
23 Jun
'08
10:30 a.m.
Jim Leonard wrote:
...
(OpenSolaris has recently (May 2008) become just as
"practical" as Linux
(minus about 30% of the driver support Linux has) so you might want to
give the OpenSolaris LiveCD a chance.)
interesting. ok.
I am *definitely* using ZFS for long-term archival, as
you can be as
good to hear. Do you ever use the "snapshot" functionality for backups?
However, it is important to never keep all of your eggs
in one basket;
I think someone at Google said "keep 3 separate copies". That's what I
do. I actually make copies of my main scsi raid-1 to a spare local sata
raid-1 and then I make offsite tars of that (to Amazon S3).
I don't agree that you need 64-bit for ZFS. I do
agree that you need a
minimum of 1G total system RAM for it, preferably 2G, since that helps
offload the cost of the parity/crc checks that keep data consistent and
ensure that you, the user, never actually *see* any IOs except reading.
mmm. ok. memory is cheap.
One thing I always liked about Solaris was the rock solid SMP. Time for
a new look with zfs. I would think it would run well on the current class
of x86 cpu's.
thanks for the info!
-brad