Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 10:27:09 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Storage question Message-ID: <55F04E83.6070902@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <55F04D78.8070508@hiwaay.net> References: <55EF3D23.5060009@hiwaay.net> <20150908220639.20412cbd@gumby.homeunix.com> <55EF5409.8020007@yahoo.com> <55EFC2DA.3020101@hiwaay.net> <08B351DD-AA48-4F30-B0D6-C500D0877FB3@lafn.org> <55F02DC8.7000706@hiwaay.net> <20150909150626.5c3b99e5.freebsd@edvax.de> <55F031A0.40500@hiwaay.net> <20150909145820.c3b48aafad4f70553c1c1fd8@sohara.org> <55F0451A.5080709@hiwaay.net> <20150909160005.d3b84775c3d0748014a871e5@sohara.org> <55F04D78.8070508@hiwaay.net>
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On 09/09/15 10:21, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > On 09/09/15 10:06, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >> On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 09:47:00 -0453.75 >> "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote: >> >>> On 09/09/15 09:04, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >>>> On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 08:23:54 -0453.75 >>>> "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I like ZFS in principal (it's one of the things that attracted me to >>>>> FreeBSD about a year ago), but, as someone else noted, it seems to >>>>> require lots of RAM & possibly CPU for best effect. The MythTV box is >>>>> an AMD A4-5000, 1.5 GHz quad-core jaguar, w/ 16 GB of RAM, which >>>>> isn't >>>> My house fileserver (erm NAS in modern speak) is a dual core >>>> Atom with 4GB. It manages a 4x2TB RAIDZ2 as well as a bunch of jails. >>>> According to top it has 2432M for ARC (3592M altogether is wired). >>>> Memory is tight but it's not swapping, and it doesn't no matter what >>>> the load. Switching to your spec would be a hefty upgrade and would >>>> almost certainly make things faster, but then most things can be made >>>> faster with an extra expenditure. >>>> >>>>> especially robusto by today's standards, so I am staying w/ UFS. >>>>> Someone >>>> If you have the opportunity then benchmark ZFS and see, if you >>>> can run it the benefits are great. >>>> >>> I am quite amenable to running ZFS, I just don't want to have to >>> abandon >>> it & return to UFS if my system proves inadequate for the task, >>> hence my >>> caution about it. If I go to ZFS, I (*think* I) use it for the whole >>> drives, except for swap (possibly), & slice it up into >>> 'partitions/slices/whatever' to do the install, right ? That was my >>> take-away from reading the online pages about it. Maybe I need to >>> rethink .... >> Yes that's essentially it - you assemble the raw storage you're >> going to use into a zpool from which the storage that backs the >> filesystems >> is drawn automatically. Once you have a zpool making a filesystem is >> very >> cheap. The filesystems share the pool, if you want to cap them you >> can but >> otherwise they're all limited by the pool. I've never filled a ZFS >> pool, I >> don't think I want to. > > > I have heard that filling your zpool is a *BAD* thing, but it can be > for any FS, just maybe a bit worse for ZFS. I am going to study that > option a bit more. The online docs all seem to show swap within the > zpool as well, does that work OK, performance wise ? It would simplify > installation, however I am planning to script that, so a bit of > 'extra' effort for separate swap partitions is not an issue. I have > always thought that separate swap partitions directly kernel managed > were the best for swap performance if/when it gets down to that, no ? *Eeeeeeeek*, scratch that bit about 'all show swap under zpool', I was doing that from memory (last summer), sorry :-/ .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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