[mythtv-users] Hard Drive reliability esp. RAID issues

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Mon Mar 8 22:06:37 UTC 2010


On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Travis Tabbal <travis at tabbal.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Do you run ZFS on FUSE in user space or has there been a change to the
>>> whole licensing question for ZFS?
>>
>>
>> No, I run ZFS on OpenSolaris so there is no licensing issue. A Linux VM runs
>> on that box for a more familiar environment and to run MythBackend. It
>> wouldn't work well with tuner cards, but I use an HDHR, so it's fine for me.
>> Solaris handles the disks, Linux runs most everything else I need from that
>> box. I've considered setting up a Windows VM for PlayOn, but decided there
>> isn't enough content available that I want to make it worth my while.
>>
>> I do hope that the licensing issue gets worked out though, Linux has far
>> better hardware support. Or I suppose Sun/Oracle could port more drivers in
>> from BSD and Linux.
>>
>
> Thanks. I hadn't heard that this was a real solution for Linux and it
> didn't dawn on me that you were running anything other than some
> standard Linux distro.
>

BTRFS is the replacement for that. It's been in the mainline kernel
for awhile although it is in development and not recommended for
production boxes.

http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

John


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