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Subject: Re: Large ZFS arrays?
From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com>
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its also worth maybe looking at a distributed  file system as well such as
moosefs or afs. This may or may not be appropriate for your workload so
careful consideration would be needed. However if its right for you there
are are potentially a lot of benefits. This can obviously be underpinned
with zfs, but would require multiple machines to make it worth while.


On 15 June 2014 16:28, Dennis Glatting <freebsd@pki2.com> wrote:

> Anyone built a large ZFS infrastructures (PB size) and care to share
> words of wisdom?
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