multi TB storage

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Fri, March 26, 2010 02:59, Christopher Chan wrote:
> 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.

Why sigh?
ZFS/OpenSolaris is ideal for such a use case. I would choose it too.