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...e of Leopard (Mac OS 10.5) has a dialogue box calling out the "Zettabyte File System (ZFS)" as an option. The first publication I saw this is a French website called Mac4Ever - http://mac4ever.com/ news/27485/zettabyte_sur_leopard/ I put up a Babelfish translation at my site, http://storagemojo.com/? p=333 This is going to be great for ZFS, Sun and Apple. Naturally, the Sun guys who''ve been working with Apple on this can''t say anything until after the announcement, but I''m open to anonymous comments ;-) . Robin Harris StorageMojo.com

Hello, I''ve stumbled upon this article: http://storagemojo.com/2011/06/27/de-dup-too-much-of-good-thing/ Reportedly Sandforce SF1200 SSD controller does internally block-level data de-duplication. This effectively removes the additional protection given by writing multiple metadata copies. This technique may be used, or can be used in the future by manufa...

At my physics lab we have 30 servers with 1TB disk packs. I am in need of monitoring for disk failures. I have been reading about SMART and it seems it can help. However, I am not sure what to look for if a drive is about to fail. Any thoughts about this? Is anyone using this method to predetermine disk failures? TIA

This article raises the concern that SSD controllers (in particular SandForce) do internal dedup, and in particular that this could defeat ditto-block style replication of critical metadata as done by filesystems including ZFS. http://storagemojo.com/2011/06/27/de-dup-too-much-of-good-thing/ Along with discussion of risk evaluation, it also suggests that filesystems could vary each copy in some way (internal serial / nonce) to defeat the mechanism. Comments and suggestions, aside the risk evaluation piece? This doesn''t appear to...

Hello, I have recently installed a lustre cluster which is in a test phase now but will potentially be in 24x7 production if its accepted. I would like input from the list on what the recommendations/best practices are for configuration of a lustre cluster startup. Is it advisable to have lustre on the various server pieces (mgs/mdt/oss''s) start automatically? If not why not?

Not sure if it''s been posted yet, my email is currently down... http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2007/10/suns_zfs_is_clo.html Interesting piece. This is the second post from Yager that shows solaris in a pretty good light. I particularly like his closing comment: "If you haven''t checked out ZFS yet, do, because it will eventually become ubiquitously implemented