[CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

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Tue, 03 Dec 2013 18:38:07 -0000

Andrew,

We've been testing ZFS since about 10/24, see my original post (and
replies) asking about its suitability "ZFS on Linux in production" on
this list. So far, it's been rather impressive. Enabling compression
better than halved the disk space utilization in a low/medium bandwidth
(mainly archival) usage case.

Dealing with many TB of data in a "real" environment is a very slow,
conservative process; our ZFS implementation has, so far, been limited
to a single redundant copy of a file system on a server that only backs
up other servers.

Our next big test is to try out ZFS filesystem send/receive in lieu of
our current backup processes based on rsync. Rsync is a fabulous tool,
but is beginning to show performance/scalability issues dealing with the
many millions of files being backed up, and we're hoping that ZFS
filesystem replication solves this.

This  stage of deployment is due to be in place by about 1/2014.

-Ben

On 11/30/2013 06:20 AM, Andrew Holway wrote:
> Hey,
>
> http://zfsonlinux.org/epel.html
>
> If you have a little time and resource please install and report back
> any problems you see.
>
> A filesystem or Volume sits within a zpool
> a zpool is made up of vdevs
> vdevs are made up of block devices.
>
> zpool is similar to LVM volume
> vdev is similar to raid set
>
> devices can be files.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
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