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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I would not be just switching filesystems, I’d be building out a new storage cluster on new hardware... A single ZFS-based NFS server has been good up until recently, but now is running out of steam in both space
and I/O performance... It’s time to do the next thing, trying to decide what that will be now :)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">On Monday, March 18, 2019 1:19 PM, Alex Chekholko said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span>(resending to list)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span>Hey Will,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span>I have heard good things about BeeGFS but have not yet met anyone using it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span>Try it out and let us know! :)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span>Since you are using ZFS now, why do you want to switch?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span>Do you want HA? You can do two-server active/passive ZFS HA with e.g. <a href="https://github.com/ewwhite/zfs-ha/wiki" target="_blank">https://github.com/ewwhite/zfs-ha/wiki</a> .
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span>Do you want to scale out to many servers? It may be fine to just add a pile of JBODs to one system...<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span>If you want higher performance, I don't think you will get higher performance from the same hardware just by switching filesystems.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">></span>Alex<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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