Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/26

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Subject: [Leica] OT- ZFS on Linux
From: colin at colinbaker.org (Colin Baker)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:52:34 -0500
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On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 23:11:13 -0500, A. Lal <alal at poly.edu> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm about to set up my long delayed NAS based on the HP N40L
>
> I'm trying to decide between running Ubuntu on ZFS,  or one of the  
> OpenBSD packages like FreeNAS 8 or NAS4Free with ZFS, of course.
>
> Have any of you run ZFS/Ubuntu? If so, how did it go and how stable was  
> your system?.
>

If you're feeling ambitious, consider running ZFS under FreeBSD 9.0 which  
has quite a few ZFS improvements over the version FreeNAS is based on.  No  
web GUI, but ZFS is pretty easy to set up and the FreeBSD documentation is  
very good.  We're running 10 VMWare and Xen servers off a custom  
FreeBSD/ZFS storage backend, and it has been very fast and stable.

No experience with Linux/ZFS, so I can't say how it would compare.
In reply to: Message from alal at poly.edu (A. Lal) ([Leica] OT- ZFS on Linux)