Date: Sun, 21 May 2017 23:26:17 -0700 From: Aaron <drizzt321@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS root on single SSD? Message-ID: <CAEsW2o8H6e_CUErgrcVuaVpszWcru%2BDfJbHfCUnQTH%2BtwXUSZg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CALfReyfjn%2BRBUMeM7sjPDsv_jWE2taFkBv1wgsK00YALJv=PYg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAEsW2o88qA_YGxHC%2B5nWsi90yJfXKkCSV7tACstK6_hLNgu4HQ@mail.gmail.com> <CALfReyfjn%2BRBUMeM7sjPDsv_jWE2taFkBv1wgsK00YALJv=PYg@mail.gmail.com>
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Yea, pretty much this. Don't need the same level of availability. Worst case, I'm a bit annoyed and rebuild the OS and restore the configs from backup. Now I just need to figure out jails and bhyve for the services since I haven't worked with either before :) There's a couple of bhyve front ends I've been looking at, sorta on the fence for which one. Really I just need to pick one and run with it. --Aaron On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 5:05 AM, krad <kraduk@gmail.com> wrote: > The big question is what availability do you need on this server? As its a > home system I guess not as much as say an enterprise one. Therefore I would > imagine all the benefits of manageability that come with zfs will out weigh > the downside, even if running on a single volume. Boot environments are a > really big thing to safe guard yourself during upgrade time. Although in > theory you could do something with ufs its never going to be as good as > with zfs. Also remember mirroring isnt backup, mirroring is about > availability. Therefore live with a single drive, but backup the contents > regularly. > > On 16 May 2017 at 06:45, Aaron <drizzt321@gmail.com> wrote: > >> So, I've been running ZFS root mirror across 2 spinning disks, and I'm >> upgrading my home server/nas and planning on running root on a spare SSD. >> However, I'm unsure if it'd be better to run UFS as a single drive root >> instead of ZFS, although I do love all of the ZFS features (snapshots, >> COW, >> scrubbing, etc) and would still like to keep that for my root drive, even >> if I'm not mirroring at all. I do notice that FreeBSD has TRIM support for >> ZFS (see http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Features#TRIM_Support). >> >> So is there a good reason NOT to run ZFS root on a single drive SSD? >> >> --Aaron >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe >> @freebsd.org" >> > >
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