Re: ZFS in productions 64 bit

Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:27 AM, Tonix (Antonio Nati)
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> Is anyone using in heavy production environment a ZFS FS with AMD 64 bit?

[...snip...]

>  We've
> benchmarked the system maxing out at 550 MBytes/sec write and 5.5 GBytes/sec
> read.

Holy crap!

Would you be so kind as to share some of your relevant pieces of config
on how you have the OS and ZFS set up?

> Our backups are done using rsync.  We serialise the backups of the systems
> at each remote site, but run the backups for multiple sites in parallel.

Although not nearly as impressive (nor 64-bit), I've been using ZFS on
my AMANDA backup server since 7.0, and it too (after a bit of tweaking)
has been rock solid.

> Our next big ZFS project will be using similar hardware to create our own
> SAN setup, using iSCSI exports, for a virtualisation setup (Linux+KVM on the
> processing nodes, FreeBSD+ZFS on the storage nodes).

Please do make notes ;)

Steve