From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 18 11:27:41 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 630C2106566B for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:27:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 010098FC16 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:27:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so656289wwi.31 for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.59.147 with SMTP id l19mr705867wbh.38.1318935550684; Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:59:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id eu16sm2779680wbb.7.2011.10.18.03.59.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:59:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E9D5BFB.5060609@my.gd> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:59:07 +0200 From: Damien Fleuriot User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org References: <4E9AE725.4040001@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [ZFS] Using SSD with partitions X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:27:41 -0000 On 10/18/11 5:53 AM, Patrick Donnelly wrote: > Since people have asked about more details for my system: > > It uses old desktop hardware with 5 1TB WD Caviar Blues in a raidz > configuration with 1 of those drives being a hot spare (4 1TB drives > in the raidz). The system currently has 2 GB of RAM IIRC. > > I've been using NFS to access the data on my home network which has > worked pretty well. Writing to NFS over my VPN from across the country > is really bad which is one of the reasons I wanted to use a SSD for a > ZIL. read/write performance overall tends to be bad though so I don't > really know how much it will help. After fiddling around with NFS > settings for a long time I soon gave up and instead use SSH when > outside a LAN. That's another matter though and off-topic. :) > > This is going to sound a bit rude, my preemptive apologies. Just where did you get the notion that changing your bike's tires would make your car run faster ? In what world does your *storage* configuration affect your *network* latency and performance ?