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    SubjectRe: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the " 'official' point of view"expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]
    On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, David Masover wrote:

    >> And perhaps a
    >> really good clustering filesystem for markets that
    >> require NO downtime.
    >
    > Thing is, a cluster is about the only FS I can imagine that could reasonably
    > require (and MAYBE provide) absolutely no downtime. Everything else, the more
    > you say it requires no downtime, the more I say it requires redundancy.
    >
    > Am I missing any more obvious examples where you can't have enough
    > redundancy, but you can't have downtime either?

    just becouse you have redundancy doesn't mean that your data is idle enough for
    you to run a repacker with your spare cycles. to run a repacker you need a time
    when the chunk of the filesystem that you are repacking is not being accessed or
    written to. it doesn't matter if that data lives on one disk or 9 disks all
    mirroring the same data, you can't just break off 1 of the copies and repack
    that becouse by the time you finish it won't match the live drives anymore.

    database servers have a repacker (vaccum), and they are under tremendous
    preasure from their users to avoid having to use it becouse of the performance
    hit that it generates. (the theory in the past is exactly what was presented in
    this thread, make things run faster most of the time and accept the performance
    hit when you repack). the trend seems to be for a repacker thread that runs
    continuously, causing a small impact all the time (that can be calculated into
    the capacity planning) instead of a large impact once in a while.

    the other thing they are seeing as new people start useing them is that the
    newbys don't realize they need to do somthing as archaic as running a repacker
    periodicly, as a result they let things devolve down to where performance is
    really bad without understanding why.

    David Lang
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