Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 00:00:24 +0000 From: Dr Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> To: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS on a single disk? Message-ID: <53FA69D2-2EF0-4CBF-985B-6E710F15FE02@tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <615F1346-E830-42E2-B229-4181B8BC56BD@exonetric.com> References: <0E00DAFC-C39F-47DC-B9AF-16419C20997F@tao.org.uk> <615F1346-E830-42E2-B229-4181B8BC56BD@exonetric.com>
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On 1 Mar 2011, at 23:49, Mark Blackman wrote: > > On 1 Mar 2011, at 23:27, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: > >> Does it make sense to run zfs on a single disk? >> >> I'm setting up a FreeBSD host over at a Xen provider, with a single 80GB disk image. Ideally I'd like to run ZFS on this system, for snapshot and flexible creation of filesystems and quotas. Has anyone got any recommendations for me in this regard? Am I crazy? > > Not crazy, I do this as well, all the time just to get the management capabilities and > leave hardware RAID to manage the availability. > > - Mark Any idea what the performance implications are? Can I get away without a ZIL or ARC and still get a decent performance? Joe
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