Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:08:38 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Matt Simerson <matt@corp.spry.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS on backup fileserver - RAM usage Message-ID: <48F3B8D6.6060309@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <9AAEBB23-75E8-49B2-BA2F-0AF98F79280F@corp.spry.com> References: <48F334A0.3080005@quip.cz> <9AAEBB23-75E8-49B2-BA2F-0AF98F79280F@corp.spry.com>
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Matt Simerson wrote: > > It all depends on your workload. If you work your backup serves hard > (as I do, backing up thousands of OS instances), you'll have > significant reliability problems using FreeBSD 7.1 and ZFS. After a > crash that corrupted my file systems, I have moved to 8-head with > Pawel's latest patch. > > My backup servers have between 16 and 24 disks each. The ones with 16GB > of RAM crash far less frequently than my server that has only 2GB. That > one is getting upgraded soon. > > Matt I am planning to backup about 10-15 servers (mainly webservers and few mailservers) and not expecting high load. Did 8-current with the latest ZFS patch fixed all stability problems? Thanks for suggestions to both of you. Miroslav Lachman
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