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ZFS-FUSE and OpenSolaris and why Google Groups are such a good resource…
As my last post said, I’m using ZFS and love the way it works, but am having trouble with the performance of ZFS-FUSE. It’s not unusable, I just expected more.
So I thought, OpenSolaris. It’s the original implementation of the filesystem it must be great, so I export my zpools and boot from the LiveCD (another great reason to try it).
However it wasn’t going to be that easy… When I try to import my zpools in Solaris I get errors stating the vdev’s are corrupt! Something like:
status: One or more devices contains corrupted data.
action: The pool cannot be imported due to damaged devices or data.
Scared I boot back to linux.
Why didn’t I know about ZFS before?
I have a fileserver at home. I have done for many years now. The first incarnation was based on Fedora Core 3 (which will tell you *exactly* how long ago that was…) and was very simple. I had an old Xbox HDD (8GB Seagate) and 2 shiny new 200GB Western Digiatl drives for storage.
This was also my first major experience with Linux as a whole, so I was trying to keep things simple. So I did a default type install, with LVM on the 2×200GB disks to give one logical 400GB partition.
All was fine and dandy until I wanted to upgrade a couple of years later and not knowing much about LVM, wiped all my data. Yes, ALL my data. I had some important stuff backed up, but a lot of non-critical but frustrating to lose data (many GBs of painstakingly ripped and encoded CDs and Audiobooks for example).