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

[Jacob Ritorto]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Hans J Albertsson <
hans.j.albertsson at gmail.com> wrote:

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

While you can always "zfs send" the filesystem to a tape, it's "not
recommended" to do this sort of thing unless you have fallbacks because one
missing bit would destroy the whole image.  That said, it works well and is
the pattern Joyent's using to distribute images on SmartOS, so it's quite
viable and performant in practise.  For archive, though, use something
designed for the purpose.


>
> 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?
>
>
As mentioned in previous message, zfs escaped Sun/Oracle in 2009.  Their
relevancy to zfs is trending sharply downward, by their own uncooperative
hand.