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RAID array
RAID array
Posted Mar 19, 2008 23:38 UTC (Wed) by daniel (subscriber, #3181)In reply to: RAID array by quotemstr
Parent article: On the vger.kernel.org outage
"Personally I would only use ZFS, NetApp or something similar that does a lot of media scrubbing, sector checksumming etc, in addition to basic RAID." Would that not be an admission of defeat for Linux?
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RAID array
Posted Mar 20, 2008 22:29 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
Yes, it means I could only use Linux currently for storage if I went for ZFS/FUSE. This is a significant weakness in the Linux story - perhaps btrfs will go some way to fixing this, but overall it seems that Linux RAID and associated sector-checksumming filesystems are a long way behind where it needs to be. I don't think this stuff is particularly hard to do, but it does require some focused work on btrfs and on RAID improvements, and there are patent risks due to the Sun/NetApp patent lawsuits, of course.