This is Mur 
What Operating System do you use?
(If Linux or BSD then which distros?)
@mur2501 @kranfahrer missing Unix/Solaris
@schenklklopfer @kranfahrer
Only have 4 options max in the poll so can't list the rarer ones. Thought that shall not stop for someone to point out 🙂
So how's your experience with Solaris and how you compare it to others?
Using OpenIndiana on several storage servers with ZFS for NFS and SMB. Hosting about one PetaByte of data on those systems.
I think Linux can do this job as well but only the recent versions. As I started doing this - 10 years ago - there was no option for ZFSonLinux...
Ever tried to host over 500.000 files in one folder on NTFS on Windows and share it via SMB?
Well Windows sucks^^
@schenklklopfer @kranfahrer
I would love to know more about handling very large amount of data and the effects of different Operating Systems and File systems on it
@mur2501 @kranfahrer
Basically it is not that different than smaller amount of data.
With the difference that you have way more hardware...
So you can do everything as it is on a smaller environment.
The magic starts at the point you want to have a good performance. You need several tounsands of IOPS and so on.
Than you need to do very heavy optimization on every peace of hard- and software. That's where ZFS and Solaris comes from...