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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 07:14:43 +0800
From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com>
Subject: Re: deciding UFS vs ZFS
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Hi,

use UFS as long as you are working with a single disk and ZFS the
moment you have more than one disk.

Erich

On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 15:03:08 -0400
"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
>