Re: Best suiting OS

Am 05.10.2009 um 23:44 schrieb Karl Denninger:

> Axel Rau wrote:
>>
>> Am 05.10.2009 um 20:06 schrieb Karl Denninger:
>>
>>> gjournal, no.  ZFS has potential stability issues - I am VERY  
>>> interested
>>> in it when those are resolved.  It looks good on a test platform  
>>> but I'm
>>> unwilling to run it in production; there are both reports of  
>>> crashes and
>>> I have been able to crash it under some (admittedly rather extreme)
>>> synthetic loads.
>> How do you prevent from long running fsck with TB size ufs  
>> partitions?
>> I had some hope for zfs13 and fbsd 8.0.
>>
>> Axel
> Turn on softupdates.  Fsck is deferred and the system comes up almost
> instantly even with TB-sized partitions; the fsck then cleans up the  
> cruft.
Last time, I checked, there was a issue with background-fsck.
I will give it a chance with my new 8.0 box.
Do you have any experience with SSDs w/o BBUed Raidcontroller?
Are they fast enough to ensure flash write out of drive cache at power  
failure after fsync ack?

Axel
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