multi TB storage

[Christopher Chan]

On Thursday, March 25, 2010 08:34 PM, David Gerard wrote:
> On 24 March 2010 04:13, Christopher Chan
> <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>  wrote:
>
>> Anybody at all using Ubuntu to handle large numbers of disks?
>
>
> Not an example: Wikimedia, who use Ubuntu as their standard OS, use
> Solaris on the image servers specifically for ZFS. It'll be a few
> years before btrfs is release quality ... perhaps Oracle (who are in
> fact paying for a lot of the work on btrfs) can be persuaded to GPL or
> LGPL ZFS. (Currently under the CDDL like the rest of OpenSolaris.)
>

Sigh, I guess I will have to continue with OpenSolaris and ZFS then. 
Nothing else will give me 30 min snapshots during the day Mon - Fri 
without disruptions from the look of things. And the LSI SAS controllers 
and SAS expanders look well supported too by OpenSolaris.