My adventure started when I needed to build a storage array for work. We needed at least 3TB of storage for our current needs plus some expansion room, it needed to be somewhat fast (using ESXi) and reliable (ZFS scrubs were very attractive for that along with RAID-Z2/Z3). So, using my best information collecting tools (my eyeballs) I set out to do what any good server administrator does when deploying something they've never used before: Read the forums.
After several days of pouring over...
ZFS Performance Adventure or How to spend a lot of time reading the forums
After several days of pouring over...
ZFS Performance Adventure or How to spend a lot of time reading the forums