Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:18:30 -0600 (CST) From: Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> To: Rudy <crapsh@MonkeyBrains.NET> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> Subject: Re: (actually ZFS) Re: Will XFS be adopted Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0811201917180.1465@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> In-Reply-To: <492603B2.4060709@MonkeyBrains.NET> References: <20081109174303.GA5146@ourbrains.org> <20081109184349.GG51239@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <4920D879.3070806@jrv.org> <20081117050441.GA16855@ourbrains.org> <20081118175210.GA3753@hyperion.scode.org> <20081119001742.GA21835@ourbrains.org> <49235D86.4050106@modulus.org> <86bpwcp1d8.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4923D460.5020900@kkip.pl> <b41c75520811190106w7f951760m95c12358f1008c5b@mail.gmail.com> <4923E977.8030107@kkip.pl> <gg4cmi$r6k$1@ger.gmane.org> <492603B2.4060709@MonkeyBrains.NET>
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Rudy wrote: > martinko wrote: >> Bartosz Stec wrote: >>>> >>> Well it's not simple indeed. I use ZFS on my home (not critical) box >>> (RAIDZ1). After 4 weeks uptime with varied workload I assumed it's stable. >>> Unfortunately ZFS crashed next week ;) >>> >> >> How did it crash ? Just the system went down or did you lose any data ? > > Read my previous email on tuning your system so ZFS doesn't crash. > >> I'm planning to build new home server and put all my valuable data on ZFS >> but after reading all the mailing lists I'm not so sure about it. :( > > I've been using it on a shared machine with hundreds of customers for over 8 > months. It has worked flawlessly. People who complain about the crashes > often have not searched the net for: "freebsd zfs tuning". > > Speaking of losing data on a ZFS system, I haven't yet (knock on wood) had a > disk failure. Anyone have a disk failure occur and have an easy/hard time > replacing the bad disk? I had a Samsung drive fail on me a few months back. Samsung does not do "advance shipment" like Seagate or WD. I had to run a raidz one drive short for about a week. The replacement was as simple as you'd expect - "zpool replace ..." Note, I will not be purchasing any more Samsung drives :)
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