From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] ZFS
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:20:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN0CFw1nGVZxJGGsq4TZidEPuyLDkcD0oYRDOOfNzFFM2vQ-tg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
I'm convinced I need 3-disk RAID1 so I can lose 2 drives and keep
running. I'd also like to stripe for performance, resulting in
RAID10. It sounds like most hardware controllers do not support
6-disk RAID10 so ZFS looks very interesting.
Can I operate ZFS RAID without a hardware RAID controller?
From a RAID perspective only, is ZFS a better choice than conventional
software RAID?
ZFS seems to have many excellent features and I'd like to ease into
them slowly (like an old man into a nice warm bath). Does ZFS allow
you to set up additional features later (e.g. snapshots, encryption,
deduplication, compression) or is some forethought required when first
making the filesystem?
It looks like there are comprehensive ZFS Gentoo docs
(http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/ZFS) but can anyone tell me from the real
world about how much extra difficulty/complexity is added to
installation and ongoing administration when choosing ZFS over ext4?
Performance doesn't seem to be one of ZFS's strong points. Is it
considered suitable for a high-performance server?
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM1NTA
Besides performance, are there any drawbacks to ZFS compared to ext4?
- Grant
next reply other threads:[~2013-09-17 7:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-17 7:20 Grant [this message]
2013-09-17 7:36 ` [gentoo-user] ZFS Marc Stürmer
2013-09-17 8:05 ` Pandu Poluan
2013-09-17 8:22 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-17 9:44 ` Grant
2013-09-17 9:42 ` Grant
2013-09-17 10:11 ` Tanstaafl
2013-09-17 16:32 ` covici
2013-09-19 22:41 ` Douglas J Hunley
2013-09-20 23:12 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2013-09-19 22:46 ` Douglas J Hunley
2013-09-17 9:52 ` Joerg Schilling
2013-09-17 13:22 ` Grant
2013-09-17 13:30 ` Joerg Schilling
2013-09-17 16:39 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-18 4:06 ` Grant
2013-09-17 10:19 ` Tanstaafl
2013-09-17 13:21 ` Grant
2013-09-17 15:18 ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-09-17 15:40 ` Tanstaafl
2013-09-17 16:34 ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-09-17 17:00 ` Tanstaafl
2013-09-17 17:07 ` Michael Orlitzky
2013-09-17 17:34 ` Tanstaafl
2013-09-17 17:54 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-09-18 4:11 ` Grant
2013-09-18 7:26 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-09-18 15:17 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-09-19 22:46 ` Douglas J Hunley
2013-09-20 9:17 ` Joerg Schilling
2013-09-20 11:17 ` Tanstaafl
2013-09-18 4:02 ` Grant
2013-09-17 18:00 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-09-17 18:11 ` covici
2013-09-17 19:30 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-09-18 4:20 ` Grant
2013-09-20 18:20 ` Grant
2013-09-20 23:07 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2013-09-21 4:34 ` Grant
2013-09-17 18:11 ` Tanstaafl
2013-09-17 19:30 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-09-18 4:22 ` Bruce Hill
2013-09-18 8:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-09-18 12:55 ` [gentoo-user] ZFS James
2013-09-19 4:49 ` Grant
2013-09-19 7:43 ` Pandu Poluan
2013-09-19 7:44 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2013-09-19 7:47 ` Pandu Poluan
2013-09-19 8:04 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-09-19 13:04 ` Grant
2013-09-19 10:37 ` Tanstaafl
2013-09-19 12:29 ` Grant
2013-09-19 12:54 ` Pandu Poluan
2013-09-19 13:01 ` Grant
2013-09-19 13:12 ` Pandu Poluan
2013-09-18 4:12 ` [gentoo-user] ZFS Grant
2013-09-18 9:56 ` Joerg Schilling
2013-09-18 17:04 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-09-19 4:47 ` Grant
2013-09-20 15:11 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-09-18 13:53 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2013-09-19 1:02 ` Dale
2013-09-19 4:44 ` Grant
2013-09-19 7:40 ` Dale
2013-09-19 7:45 ` Pandu Poluan
2013-09-19 9:07 ` Joerg Schilling
2013-09-19 11:22 ` Dale
2013-09-19 11:27 ` Joerg Schilling
2013-09-22 1:19 ` Dale
2013-09-19 9:04 ` Joerg Schilling
2013-09-21 12:53 ` thegeezer
2013-09-21 16:49 ` Pandu Poluan
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