[nylug-talk] Big filesystem recommendation - which one?

[jh]

Brandorr wrote:
> If you are willing to look at OpenSolaris, you can always use ZFS. ;)
> Let me know if you want to test this out, or need more info. (ZFS also
> supports native FS compression)..
> 
> -Brian
> P.S. - I'm pretty sure that ZFS hands NT file perms out of the box.
> 

Linux I know, OpenSolaris I don't. I couldn't try OpenSolaris unless I 
had a Linux "fallback" - which means that my hardware and configuration 
are going to be tailored to what I know will work well under Linux from 
experience.

Given that, my immediate issues with trying OpenSolaris:

* Does it support the same hardware? The real curveball would be a 3ware 
controller. Google didn't produce a quick answer.

* Ethernet Bonding - is there functionality like the bonding module in 
Linux? I'm guessing there would be. I've been using bonding to good effect.

* NFS performance. I recall a study that showed that NFS performance was 
greatest when the server and client were on the same OS (again, can't 
find it with a quick Google). Yes, I know that Sun is the gold reference 
for the NFS as they invented it, but if my Linux client run more slowly, 
then I have issues.

Thanks.

jh