Yeah, I'm worried especially about stability on Linux, since I'm not rebuilding this entire server (: This is software RAID5 - can ZFS just take over from that? I've not done a ton with it. On Wed, 6 Nov 2013, Andrew Berg wrote: > On 2013.11.06 02:42, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> So I think I may have nuked my RAID array. It was ext4 and couldn't be >> over 16tb, so I tried to remove the new drives so I could make a new array >> and then move stuff over, and ended up having to rebuild the old one and >> now I can't mount it anymore. >> >> ANYway, assuming I can't solve that problem (or even if I do!) I need to >> move my array to a new filesystem, and I'm considering either zfs, xfs or >> btrfs. > ZFS is what I would recommend, since it certainly has tons of awesome features, and is very mature (just reached its 12th birthday) and > production ready. > It's not likely to be as stable on Linux as it is on Illumos and FreeBSD, but the OpenZFS project is working to minimize platform > differences and make it as usable and stable as possible across as many platforms as possible. FreeBSD has excellent documentation and there > are even a few people on this list who are familiar with it if you decide to go that route. > One thing to keep in mind about ZFS is that it is an entire storage subsystem and doesn't do well if it has things like RAID controllers or > some other logical volume management working behind the scenes. It's best to give ZFS direct access to the disks so it can make good decisions. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >