[OpenIndiana-discuss] A ZFS related question: How successful is ZFS, really???

[Hans J Albertsson]

Thanks for your views, the serial storage (tape mostly?) problem is news to
me but otherwise I concur.

I was mostly asking about success and market presence, i e is ZFS being
widely used in any non-Sun/Oracle part of the workplace?

Hans J. Albertsson
>From my Nexus 5
Den 12 jan 2015 12:38 skrev "Jonathan Adams" <t12nslookup at gmail.com>:

> ZFS is the most advanced filesystem on the planet IMHO, we have been using
> it for 10+ years in production.
>
> There are reasons not to use it, but they are usually limitations not
> related to ZFS itself.
>
> We used to use tape backup for our old UFS systems, and it came as a shock
> when we couldn't use tapes with ZFS easily ... but we just bit the bullet
> and realised that tapes were a dead technology, and just went for ZFS
> snapshots and keeping offline'd disks in the fireproof safe.
>
> There is some fragmentation, Solaris 11 has an incompatible version of ZFS,
> at least for now.
>
> ZFS on Linux doesn't come compiled into the kernel by default, which means
> that you can't have a ZFS root and update the kernel at the same time,
> without being _very_ _careful_!
>
> ZFS on USB in Solaris is a little flaky, but that's not down to the ZFS,
> it's down to the USB support, and when the ZFS root system fails the whole
> system is unrecoverable.
>
> ...
>
> Seriously though, ZFS does more than any other file system, it is more
> robust and it's easier to manage ... all other filesystems are useless in
> comparison.
>
> BTRFS, don't go there, it's a poor man's ZFS, the Microsoft "equivalent"
> likewise shouldn't even be in the same sentence.
>
> Just my 2cents.
>
> Jon
>
> On 12 January 2015 at 11:13, Hans J. Albertsson <
> hans.j.albertsson at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
> > I know FreeNAS has turned to ZFS only, OSv is ZFS only, and NAS
> Appliances
> > running ZFS turn up in unexpected places, but is it really anything like
> an
> > even half-baked "success", at least of sorts???
> >
> > A "friend" (long time, extremely irritating acquantance) claims ZFS is a
> > complete failure, and will just disappear......
> >
> > I realised I had no idea at all!
> >
> > Anyone able to shed some light on this??
> >
> > ZFS should be the rage of the town, I think, but maybe I'm just being
> > fundamentalistic....
> >
> >
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