[OpenAFS] Overview? Linux filesystem choices

[Rich Sudlow]

On Sep 28, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Brian Sebby wrote:

> For what it's worth, we've been using ZFS for our AFS partitions for  
> many
> years now, and it's been rock solid.  It's even saved our butts in a  
> few
> situations where ZFS recovered far more gracefully than UFS would  
> have.
> If you're using Solaris, I believe that there is no reason to use  
> anything
> other than ZFS at this point.
>
>
> Brian

I have to agree with Brian here - we also use ZFS on thumpers and
am very happy with it - that being said we're also looking for  
fileserver
alternatives due to Oracle takeover.  I was thinking RHES 6 would work
fine but with the responses I'm seeing might stay with Solaris.

Rich

Rich Sudlow
Center for Research Computing
University of Notre Dame

>
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 02:53:52PM -0700, Patricia O'Reilly wrote:
>> I'm curious, what types of problems have you encountered with
>> ZFS? We are actually considering using ZFS on some of our  
>> fileservers.
>>
>> --patty
>>
>> Jeff Blaine wrote:
>>> We're considering ditching our Sun boxes with vice
>>> partitions on ZFS :(
>>>
>>> What's the tried-and-true production-quality Linux
>>> equivalent?  Anything?  Last I read, nothing.
>>>
>>> Barring an equivalent, what Linux setup...
>>>
>>>  a) seems most stable
>>>  b) is fsck-less
>>>
>>> Even quick grunt responses are appreciated.  Thanks.
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