From: David Carter (no email)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2007 - 14:01:56 EST
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Marten Lehmann wrote:
> because NFS is the only standard network file protocol. I don't want to
> load a proprietary driver into the kernel to access a SAN device.
Fair enough, although NFS is likely to be really rather slow compared to a
block device which just happens to be accessed via a fibre channel link.
I would be surprised if NFS worked given that it is only a approximation to
a "real" Unix filesystem. Cyrus really hammers the filesystem.
>> I've heard horror stories about all the common Linux filesystems and I've
>> personally watched fsck.ext3 (supposedly the safest option) unravel a
>> filesystem, with thousands of entries left in lost+found.
>
> ext3 with journal? I have never experienced this.
It was in a RAID set which had had a dodgy disk, but there was a definite
urk moment when I saw what fsck had done. Fortunately not critical data.
>> ZFS looks nice.
>
> Well, but you are on your own because this project for linux is pretty
> young.
I don't have any problem with OpenSolaris, though it would be a little
amusing given that we moved from Solaris to Linux about 4 years back.
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