Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:13:53 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FS of choice for max random iops ( Maildir ) Message-ID: <j4vi2i$g0s$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20110916073013.37776ih29rdcux8o@mail.top-consulting.net> References: <20110916063153.200375qdq59crf8c@mail.top-consulting.net> <4E732FDF.9080307@gmail.com> <20110916073013.37776ih29rdcux8o@mail.top-consulting.net>
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On 16/09/2011 13:30, freebsd@top-consulting.net wrote: > Is zfs supposed to be faster if you let it manage the disks directly ? > Not necessarily faster (in fact, RAID-Z variants have known limitations which are not so pronounced in RAID5/6), but definitely more convenient and in some respects safer. I would test very carefully if you need speed and stability from ZFS. For one thing, you will probably want to reduce the block size in ZFS to 8K or such.
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