Re: Best practice for large storage?

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>]

I don't feel like using the fuse version, but is zfsonlinux really stable yet? 

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> Roy,
> 
> Why not use ZFS on Linux? (http://www.zfsonlinux.org)
> 
> ZFS on Linux is being merged into the upcoming Lustre 2.4 parallel
> filesystem release.
> 
> --Jeff
> 
> On 2/14/13 9:28 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > It seems we may need some storage for video soon. This is a 20k
> > studen college in Norway, with rather a few on media related
> > studies. Since these students produce rather large amounts of raw
> > material, typically to be stored during the semester, we may need
> > some 50-100TiB, perhaps more. I have setup systems with these
> > amounts of storage earlier on ZFS, but may be using Linux MD for
> > this project. I'm aware of the lack of checksumming, snapshots etc
> > with Linux, but may be using it because of more Linux knowledge
> > amongst the sysadmins here. In such a setup, I guess nearline SAS
> > drives on a SAS expander will be used, and with the amount of
> > storage needed, I won't be using a single RAID-6 (too insecure) or
> > RAID-10 (too expensive) for the lot. In ZFS-land I used smallish
> > VDEVs (~10 drives each) in a large pool.
> >
> >   - Would using LVM on top of RAID-6 give me something similar?
> >   - If so, should I stripe the RAID sets, and again, if striping
> >   them, will it be as easy to add new RAID sets as we run out of
> >   space?
> >
> > Thanks, and best regards
> >
> > roy
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