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hardk0re,May 27 2009, 06:25 AM Wrote:But weren't you running 0.7?  Why not give up on ZFS and just use 0.69 for now?
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yup, I am using 0.7.. so I knew the risks I was running.

I like ZFS -- really do. It demonstrates just how robust it is -- because even with the nas server crapping out regularily due to driver issues and whatnot, I still have not lost any data in the 700+Gb of data on the server.

I can change to any OS, and I never lose the RAID array... and that's not the case with other filesystem or RAID implementations.

the ease of use and robustness of ZFS is really worth it -- and I don't really get all the flak I see on the net -- a lot of linux geeks say that ext4 and LVMs are just as good, if not better -- but even if they're just as robust -- they're definitely not as easy to setup, use, migrate, upgrade, etc.

Since I'm using it mainly for SMB, UPnP, FTP, and Web, I could just as easily switch to ubuntu until freenas 0.7 matures more.

Another bonus to running ZFS on ubuntu via FUSE is that a filesystem panic error won't panic the kernel and crash the whole machine. Just restart the ZFS service and you're back in.

so I'll give that a whirl... and see how it works. Not the easiest setup, but likely the easiest to grow with in the future.