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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:blue'>I checked ZFS out, and it looks way cool. Shame that it is a bit of
a non-starter for non-Solaris OS’s due to licensing issues. I understand
btrfs will implement much of the same features – I believe someone on
this list has been using btrfs for a while? Any feedback?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> mythtvnz-bounces@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
[mailto:mythtvnz-bounces@lists.linuxnut.co.nz] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark de
Reeper<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 17 June 2009 11:58 a.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> MythTV in NZ<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [mythtvnz] File System for RAID-5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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This may seem like heresy on a predominantly Linux forum but for anyone looking
at building a stand-alone box to act as at NAS type device you shouldn't
over-look OpenSolaris with ZFS. I have been using ZFS on my home file server
for years (in a simple mirror config) and as the price of disks have come down
I have just been replacing the disks and the space increases accordingly (no
downtime if I had hot-swappable disks). It is so easy to set up and configure,
not need to worry about which filesystem/volume management combo to use. <br>
<br>
I am in the process of getting into the MythTV space (currently a happy
home-brew TiVo user) to take advantage of Freeview HD TV and would be looking
to run the backend as a virtual machine on my OpenSolaris host (since MythTV is
not supported natively yet). The backend would either write to NFS or iSCSI
shared disks from my ZFS pool. Currently I am sharing files to my sw modded
XBox running XBMC which is what I am looking to upgrade. Getting a nice
platform that can serve as a MythTV Frontend/XBMC combo, but that is for
another thread.<br>
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<br>
Mark<br>
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Disclamer, yes I happen work for Sun but I would be using this combo even if I
wasn't :-)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Jim Cheetham <<a
href="mailto:jim@inode.co.nz">jim@inode.co.nz</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:54
PM, James Booth<<a href="mailto:james@booths.net.nz">james@booths.net.nz</a>>
wrote:<br>
> Thanks Steve, that makes things clear.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Yep, I hadn't thought about adding a new drive by
deliberately<br>
degrading the existing RAID sets, a handy trick :-)<o:p></o:p></p>
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-jim<br>
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