Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 14:45:04 -0500 From: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: deciding UFS vs ZFS Message-ID: <CAOFF%2BZ1SQXhMvswVcW1Rtr92fg5pmY_x1OA8GTOrKG15HgD=_g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140713190308.GA9678@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <20140713190308.GA9678@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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Sam Fourman Jr. On Jul 13, 2014 2:03 PM, "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > We have two 'big' filesystems, UFS and ZFS. How do people decide when > to use which? I'm trying to build a "decision matrix" of when to use > each. > > My virtualization system runs KVM, so I use UFS on VMs. Restoring > ZFS disk images via dd can be problematic. > > For larger boxes running on real iron, I use ZFS. > > But there's a whole range of conditions between these two. And the way > to fill in the gray spaces is to ask. > > So, how do you decide to use which filesystem? > > ==ml My decision tree is simple.... if system == virtual machine use UFS ELSE use ZFS
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