… centers, one with Solaris servers and the other one with Linux servers. The Solaris side is cleverly setup using zones and… can easily run a server with hundreds of snapshots.  With LVM, your IO performance drops to 33% after the first snapshot… small but yet interesting saving. All put together, ZFS on Linux is a very interesting solution for MySQL backup servers.  All…

…Yves: 1. Yes, it is not easy going from Linux to illumos ZFS by giving up 10% total ram for … be used as MySQL read slaves behind a pair of Linux based MySQL Masters using Pacemaker. Maybe you guys can get…

…! Actually I ran into performance issues during testing ZFS on Linux, it’s true it was some months before so maybe…. “Additionally, it should be made clear that the ZFS on Linux implementation has not yet been optimized for performance. As the…

…Janne: I don’t think the Linux port is that inferior to make a sizeable difference. Seems …

Nice post Yves! Had any chance to try using ZFS volumes via iSCSI? Also why no mention of using SSD drives for L2ARC?

Isn’t ZFS on Linux going through FUSE? That should be quite slow.