Here i go again, Linux what flavour?

[Dr. Z]

Originally Posted by Mark

ZFS is scary. You want petabytes of storage? No problem.

One of my mates works for Sun They had a little array of drives connected to a Solaris box, but the power cables were connected to this other box that randomly power cycled drives (and more than one at once sometimes) while the solaris box performed continuous read/write operations and checksummed all the files.

No errors whatsoever. At all. For the entire time the demonstration ran.

The way you can just add drives and take drives away from a ZFS pool is pretty neat too. You have to pay lots for a RAID implementation that'll do stuff like that!