Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 21:55:04 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> To: Aaron <drizzt321@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS root on single SSD? Message-ID: <CALfReyfOpH4KDp3isSpfT72AD9Maez_VcPEJodvYrHYLfuhp-w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAEsW2o8H6e_CUErgrcVuaVpszWcru%2BDfJbHfCUnQTH%2BtwXUSZg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAEsW2o88qA_YGxHC%2B5nWsi90yJfXKkCSV7tACstK6_hLNgu4HQ@mail.gmail.com> <CALfReyfjn%2BRBUMeM7sjPDsv_jWE2taFkBv1wgsK00YALJv=PYg@mail.gmail.com> <CAEsW2o8H6e_CUErgrcVuaVpszWcru%2BDfJbHfCUnQTH%2BtwXUSZg@mail.gmail.com>
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stay with jails as much as you can, as they will be more stable and far more lightwieght On 22 May 2017 at 07:26, Aaron <drizzt321@gmail.com> wrote: > 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" > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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