[BBLISA] Fileserver opinion

Rob Taylor rgt at wi.mit.edu
Fri Aug 13 12:11:51 EDT 2010


How active is that system and how big is the drive that's resilvering?

rgt

On 08/13/2010 12:07 PM, Toby Burress wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:21:28AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>>> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
>>> Behalf Of John Orthoefer
>>>
>>> the 1TB SATA hard drive that you get from
>>> NewEgg and xTB of disk storage you get from Netapp are NOT comparable.
>>
>> I'll agree that "you get what you pay for."
>>
>> But I'll say this:  Scrap netapp, and go with ZFS.  I did this about a year
>> ago, and I am SOOOO happy I did.  ZFS does everything and more than netapp.
>> I can run it on commodity Dell (or whatever blackbox) hardware.  I can build
>> a cheap "backup" server which is regularly instantly(ish) snapshotted from
>> the primary server, and all of it is migrated and stored offsite.
>>
>> Seriously, the features and performance of ZFS over Netapp or EXT3/4 are
>> hands-down just plain superior and awesome.
> 
> scrub: resilver in progress for 43h49m, 63.84% done, 24h49m to go
> 
> YMMV
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