[aklug] Re: ZFS

From: Jason McEachen <jason@brightshinyobject.com>
Date: Fri Aug 10 2012 - 10:09:50 AKDT

imho, what makes ZFS "the FS of the Gods*" is snapshots. It's saved my
butt (and those of my family, coworkers, etc) on multiple occasions.
I'd recommend having that set up for the el hefe show, too.

--Jason
*your Gods, and benefits, may vary by location :-)

On 08/10/2012 11:00 AM, Shane Spencer wrote:
> We're in the process of getting beefier OS X servers due to my bosses
> love affair with Apple. He's not the head of I.T. mind you.. just the
> head of the company.. which I guess has some sway.
>
> I've been searching for a way to use 12 cores on OS X without
> 'breaking dist' so to speak. I've found a LOT of utilities to help me
> stay sane.. I've experienced pain and pleasure in it's new server
> control panel and services.. and now I've moved on to the fact that I
> really honestly hate HFS+.. So I went searching for a better FS that
> could be used with OSX and have found MacZFS and it is.. bliss.
>
> http://i.imgur.com/oINIz.png
>
> I'd like to thank Royce for bringing ZFS back up to the surface for
> me. I'm not a huge BSD user and I had a difficult time my need for
> instant gratification mixing with the learning curve that FreeBSD.. or
> even Debian/kFreeBSD.. introduced. At this point I'm just happy to
> have non HFS+ for our main storage pool. HFS+ will still be utilized
> for the root filesystem and some small supplimentary filesystems.
>
> Hopefully I will be showing off ZFS Send/Recv to el boss mang later today.
>
> - Shane
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