From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 10 12:50:40 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5955016A419 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:50:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from vps1.solepartners.com (vps1.solepartners.com [85.233.167.66]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA60913C46E for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:50:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: (qmail 7407 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2007 12:50:38 -0000 Received: from 150.117-84-212.staticip.namesco.net (HELO prawn.unsane.co.uk) (212.84.117.150) by vps1.solepartners.com with SMTP; 10 Aug 2007 12:50:38 -0000 Message-ID: <46BC5F1D.5020507@unsane.co.uk> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:50:37 +0100 From: Vince User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070808) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wojciech Puchar References: <20070810122714.D78112@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20070810122714.D78112@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anyone using ZFS for real? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:50:40 -0000 I've been using it just for the /usr/ports on my i386 laptop for a while (dual core T2300 @ 1.66GHz with 1 gig Ram:) (jhary@prawn)$sudo zpool history tank History for 'tank': 2007-04-11.10:45:56 zpool create tank ad0s4a 2007-04-11.10:46:35 zfs create tank/ports 2007-04-11.10:47:06 zfs set compression=gzip tank/ports 2007-04-11.10:53:29 zfs set mountpoint=/usr/ports tank/ports 2007-05-11.09:31:37 zpool scrub tank 2007-08-08.12:31:44 zpool scrub tank 2007-08-09.14:51:52 zfs set atime=off tank with no issues. With appropriate tuning I also now run my home server (personal email server, samba and nfs server for music/video/documents) which is again i386 with 3 gigs memory with /usr and /var on zfs mirrors. for this I did have to set kern.maxvnodes=40000 vfs.zfs.zil_disable="1" vfs.zfs.prefetch_disable="1" vfs.zfs.arc_max="83886080" vm.kmem_size_max="536870912" for it to survive a portsnap fetch && portsnap extract without running out of kernel memory. since then its run with no issues. I'm told that FreeBSD/amd64 is a better choice for zfs though as "with a 32bit kernel you are more likely to experience problems with KVA shortage than you are RAM shortage when using ZFS." Also see the thread starting: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-June/073972.html for reports from people using it (back in zune true but its only going to have improved since :) Vince Wojciech Puchar wrote: > on FreeBSD 7.0 > > i mean is it stable enough to be used on FreeBSD/amd64 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"