[OpenAFS] ZFS-on-Linux on production fileservers?

[Coy Hile]

Along the same lines, is anybody using any of the Illumos distributions? =
=A0Personally, I'm working on rolling my own SmartOS build that has the AFS=
 kernel module installed so that VMs could be AFS fileservers or clients. (=
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the AFS kernel module is required only for the=
 clients and the fileservers, right? If I host is only an AFS dbserver, it =
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4, 2013 at 10:31:47AM -0400 Quoting Jeff Blaine (jblaine@kickflop.net):=0A=
> [ For those running ext3/ext4, a question further down for you as ]=0A=
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> We're still a 100% Solaris + ZFS file server shop. We're EOLing=0A=
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> * Are you using ZFS-on-Linux in production for file servers?=0A=
> * If not, and you looked into it, what stopped you?=0A=
> * If you are, how is it working out for you?=0A=
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> ext3/ext4 people: What is your fsck strategy?=0A=
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I'd second the question about FreeBSD that was asked earlier. My=0A=
personal cell runs vicep* on ZFS, 4 zmirrored 2TB SATA drives on an old=0A=
Dell 2950 with 8G RAM. I also iSCSI share a few devices (around a TB,=0A=
mail spool, backup spool, and scratch partition) from it. I'm very=0A=
happy. Rock solid; as good as Solaris on X86 but Larry does not even=0A=
get credit. Performance-wise, perhaps not super hot, but enough.=0A=
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today, that probably is the default.=0A=
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