Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:36:36 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server? Message-ID: <4873CFD4.3060004@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080706085537.J3537@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <1a5a68400806080604ped08ce8p120fc21107e7de81@mail.gmail.com> <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A61A193E@royal64.emp.zapto.org> <20080612132527.K5722@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <200807060222.40004.lists@jnielsen.net> <20080706085537.J3537@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> ZFS on FreeBSD is GEOM-ified. While I believe what Wojciech said about >> needing a full disk is correct under Solaris, it's not the case in > > i never said it requires full disk. but it will work very slow sharing a > disk with non-ZFS things. Well, of course if you are loading your disk with too many seeks it will be slow. This has nothing to do with ZFS. >>> to say more: zfs set copies could be usable to selectively mirror given >>> data while not mirroring other (using unprotected storage for ZFS). >>> but it's broken. it writes N copies under write, but don't remake >>> copies in case of failure! > > which make it almost unusable. in case of any failure you have to copy > and delete every file to make it actually repaired. Eh? It happens automatically. Kris
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