Trailer: ZFS as a Root File System

[pcfxer]

For my application, everything would have to be automatically done out of the box. I have no issues with this personally, I even use FreeBSD as my main workstation, so I have the time and know-how.

I just can't see myself taking the time to train a bunch of admins nationally to deploy a technology that requires more than just scripting, but a background knowledge on what's going on.

I'd like to use Solaris/ZFS to replace a ton of SANs from EMC^2.

[pcfxer]

Tough crowd ;).

My issue with ZFS is that ZFS, according to the internet, is not auto-self-healing, an admin is required to trigger self-healing.

Drive drops, system continues automatically, (yes?). Drive gets replaced, drive requires system admin to trigger the new drive into the zpool again. That is the only issue right now.

[damoos]

Zfs is self healing. You can initiate it via zpool scrub command assuming you have redundancy.. You can then script it and put it in a cron job to run weekly/monthly.

If you use spares you can also avoid sys admin intervention to replace doggy disk, until its actually replaced. Then you just use the zpool replace command.