| Rich Freeman on 9 May 2014 13:08:05 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] iSCSI storage appliance(s) |
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Lee H. Marzke <lee@marzke.net> wrote: > ZFS is designed to handle peta or 'zeta' bytes of storage and it's name implies > and ZFS is software RAID only. I doubt anything would prevent ZFS (or btrfs, which shares these characteristics) from working with hardware RAID. However, it would defeat some of the purpose of using it in the first place. A hardware RAID just abstracts the physical storage and presents a big drive, and COW filesystems can work on a big drive. Since you separate the physical layer the filesystem can't do things like avoid overwriting only part of a stripe (which forces a read before write operation). But your points are fine otherwise - COW is a great thing! Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug