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Date:      Fri, 25 May 2012 14:58:57 +0200
From:      Jeremie Le Hen <jlh@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        lev@FreeBSD.org, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Subject:   Re: UFS+J panics on HEAD
Message-ID:  <20120525125857.GA47353@felucia.tataz.chchile.org>
In-Reply-To: <4FBE92FC.5030001@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <38A5BC8F-A8FB-4371-AB1D-9548F5957254@lists.zabbadoz.net> <20120523131046.GC2358@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <12410676034.20120524013853@serebryakov.spb.ru> <8D72700F5CA4461BAD1C98908689CB9E@multiplay.co.uk> <20120523220533.GA11122@lonesome.com> <4FBE92FC.5030001@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 09:58:52PM +0200, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 24/05/2012 00:05, Mark Linimon wrote:
> > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:58:48PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
> >> > While it might be a shame to see FFS go by the wayside are there any
> >> > big reasons why you would rather stick with FFS instead of moving
> >> > to ZFS with all the benefits that brings?
> 
> >  - ZFS eats bytes for breakfast.  It is completely inappropriate
> >    for anything with less than 4GB RAM.
> > 
> >  - ZFS performs poorly under disk-nearly-full conditions.
> 
>   - ZFS is not optimal for situations where there are a lot of small,
>     randomly dispersed IOs around the disk space.  Like in any sort of
>     RDBMS.

This is very true for reads, not for writes because it is a COW
filesystem so writes are usually sequencial disk-wise.

-- 
Jeremie Le Hen

Men are born free and equal.  Later on, they're on their own.
				Jean Yanne



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