Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 17:39:35 +0000 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using an SSD "disk" for / Message-ID: <AANLkTi=7rfMGoVgyEA0z28XS47dR_0f5zSW96pJMKow0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E1PDdUQ-000Fbg-S5@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <4CD04AEC.8040607@aldan.algebra.com> <E1PDdUQ-000Fbg-S5@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> wrote: > I boot a server from a Compact Flash drive connected to a CF->SATA > adaptor. Its only 4GB, enough to boot, and then all my read/write > partititons come from several terrabytes of attached zpool. It > works excellently, and was very cheap to setup. Performance is > fine as you are almost never writing to the flash drive. The only > time I notice the slowdown is when doing an installworld or installkernel. > > -pete. > When you set up your disks like this, where do you put your swap? For my home ZFS server - which has a tank with two raidz pools, each with 6 disks in - I partitioned the first 6 disks into 2 partitions, a 6 GB chunk at the start, and the remaining data used for zfs. I then use 3 of the disks first partition in a gmirror UFS root partition, and the other 3 as swap. Cheers Tom
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