[Discuss] Adventures in N40L Land

[Richard Pieri]

On 2/12/2012 9:55 PM, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
 > Did you use LVM?
 > How did you (did you?) RAID?
 > Are you using a snapshotting paradigm for backup?
 > How are you going to backup?

As I noted for Tom, I'm using ZFS RAID-Z with Debian's zfs-fuse.  No 
Linux LVM2 for this for a couple of reasons.  I want to see ZFS in 
action.  ext2/3 are gigantic loses for large scale storage, and while 
ext4 is useful it is really just a transitional step to btrfs which 
isn't ready for prime time.

One of the things that I've learned is that ZFS is vastly more flexible 
in carving out file systems than Linux LVM2.

I'm not seriously concerned about backups.  It is (will be) the backup 
for things like my notebooks and A/V libraries.  Catastrophic failure 
would not lead immediately to data loss.  What I will likely do is 
repurpose some of my enclosures as offline replicas of things like my 
iTunes library so that recovery from a catastrophe does not entail 
re-ripping everything.

-- 
Rich P.