[176801] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Got a call at 4am - RAID Gurus Please Read
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Seastrom)
Thu Dec 11 17:04:48 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
From: Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:57:47 -0500
In-Reply-To: <21641.64933.650664.76727@world.std.com> (Barry Shein's message
of "Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:25:09 -0500")
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> writes:
> From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
>>> We are now using ZFS RAIDZ and the question I ask myself is, why
>>> wasn't I using ZFS years ago?
>>
>>because it is not production on linux, which i have to use because
>>freebsd does not have kvm/ganeti. want zfs very very badly. snif.
>
> I keep reading zfs vs btrfs articles and...inconclusive.
>
> My problem with both is I need quotas, both file and "inode", and both
> are weaker than ext4 on that, zfs is very weak on this, you can only
> sort of simulate them.
By file, you mean "disk space used"? By whom and where? Quotas and
reservations on a per-dataset basis are pretty darned well supported
in ZFS. As for inodes, well, since there isn't really such a thing as
an inode in ZFS... what exactly are you trying to do here?
-r
