[NCSA-discuss] RAID recommendations?

[Jeffrey Johnson]

For a home grown solution I agree with Kevin. I would go with Solaris and
ZFS, or give Nexenta Community Edition a go.

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On Dec 17, 2010 10:37 PM, "Kevin Wilcox" <kevin at tux.appstate.edu> wrote:
> On 17 December 2010 17:59, Steve Wolfe <swolfe100 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Simon's suggestion looks interesting - and then maybe run sotware raid
>> and maybe LVM.
>
> <snip>
>
>> A few years ago we ran some software raid
>> and although not truly ideal .. not too bad.
>
> Given what we've heard about the scope of the project, software RAID
> sounds like a great solution.
>
> I'm really surprised that, on a SysAdmin list, nobody has suggested a
> machine running either
>
> a) FreeBSD + ZFS or
>
> b) Solaris + ZFS
>
> given that ZFS handles both the filesystem component and the RAID
> component with error checking, snapshots, etc., and is, generally
> speaking, a lot more "user friendly" in a bad situation (failing or
> degraded disks) than LVM.
>
> kmw
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