Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 07:14:43 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: deciding UFS vs ZFS Message-ID: <20140714071443.42f615c5@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <20140713190308.GA9678@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <20140713190308.GA9678@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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Hi, use UFS as long as you are working with a single disk and ZFS the moment you have more than one disk. Erich On Sun, 13 Jul 2014 15:03:08 -0400 "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com> wrote: > Hi, > > We have two 'big' filesystems, UFS and ZFS. How do people decide when > to use which? I'm trying to build a "decision matrix" of when to use > each. > > My virtualization system runs KVM, so I use UFS on VMs. Restoring > ZFS disk images via dd can be problematic. > > For larger boxes running on real iron, I use ZFS. > > But there's a whole range of conditions between these two. And the way > to fill in the gray spaces is to ask. > > So, how do you decide to use which filesystem? > > ==ml >
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