[TriLUG] FreeNAS vs DIY

[Matt Pusateri]

On Sep 16, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:

> OK, so it sounds like ZFS is pretty much a must. The more research I do the
> more I think that I'd be better off with Ubuntu + ZFS for Linux. That's
> what I am most familiar with and ZFS seems a lot less scary than BTRFS.
> 
> Last question: is it a terrible idea to do backups using rsnapshot onto the
> same RAID-Z/zpool as the main data? This way I'd have two subvolumes: one
> for the actual online data and one for the daily and weekly snapshots. Or
> should I try to figure out some way to set up a second machine with ZFS on
> it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Igor



I wouldn't think ZFS for Linux would be as stable as FreeBSD or Solaris/Solaris fork.   ZFS does rock!   I run several FreeNAS servers at work to export iSCSI to vmware.  But in my case they are all for dev systems and we don't care about SSD's for read/write ZIL cache. 



Matt P.