[BBLISA] Fileserver opinion

[Jeff Wasilko]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 07:21:28AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> But I'll say this:  Scrap netapp, and go with ZFS.  I did this about a year
> ago, and I am SOOOO happy I did.  ZFS does everything and more than netapp.
> I can run it on commodity Dell (or whatever blackbox) hardware.  I can build
> a cheap "backup" server which is regularly instantly(ish) snapshotted from
> the primary server, and all of it is migrated and stored offsite.
> 
> Seriously, the features and performance of ZFS over Netapp or EXT3/4 are
> hands-down just plain superior and awesome.

Agreed on many fronts. We use it on our solaris boot disks, and also use
Sun's packaged versions of their fileservers (the 7000 series) and are
pretty happy with them.