Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 17:40:54 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deciding UFS vs ZFS Message-ID: <20140724174054.197aa468@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <98DFE7A36ED2EBA26E6C710C@[192.168.1.50]> References: <20140713190308.GA9678@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <20140714071443.42f615c5@X220.alogt.com> <53C326EE.1030405@my.hennepintech.edu> <20140714111221.5d4aaea9@X220.alogt.com> <20140715143821.23638db5@gumby.homeunix.com> <CALfReyf8Rg7rCcob4jSk9XbPLY0MpP52jno9vZ0GUFQGS0Vy-A@mail.gmail.com> <20140716143929.74209529@gumby.homeunix.com> <CALfReycWppVY5BYHeqvunvnUDtwPAke5vug0Kik2_JTnvvfArQ@mail.gmail.com> <20140718180416.715cdc0b@gumby.homeunix.com> <CALfReycMdd-jNvRaiyXO4A=C3eFwuugL74HNoKyb2q4um1L5pg@mail.gmail.com> <20140722133305.228a1690@gumby.homeunix.com> <8699AF5D2BE8E9EBCFFEEE17@[192.168.1.50]> <20140722222722.70f13ec9@gumby.homeunix.com> <C9D2EE68EC3894786D119AFD@[192.168.1.50]> <20140724002912.5eda1757@gumby.homeunix.com> <98DFE7A36ED2EBA26E6C710C@[192.168.1.50]>
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 20:40:09 -0400
Daniel Staal wrote:
> --As of July 24, 2014 12:29:12 AM +0100, RW is alleged to have said:
>
> > Which is why I've found it odd that people have bothered to comment
> > on my original statement that I'm not going to do that because it
> > would be a bad idea.
> >
> >
> > My original question started:
> >
> > " On a desktop, without raid, I would expect ZFS to make things a
> > lot worse in the case of a disk failure because it would spread the
> > damage around all the directories.
> >
> > For that reason I'm putting my desktop user data on
> > ufs/gjournal, but I was wondering about putting the OS on
> > ZFS. ... "
>
> --As for the rest, it is mine.
>
> Which people (including me) immediately assumed meant 'desktop with
> one disk'
In it's original context it was in reply to:
"But moving to a second disk only makes ZFS not just attractive but
basically a must."
> (because there's no good reason to *not* use RAID or
> mirroring with ZFS if you have more than one disk),
There's no good reason if you have a small amount of data or don't care
about the cost. I have 7 TB so with either raid or mirroring I'd
looking at 5X3TB of extra drives.
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