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Date:      Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:35:21 +0100
From:      "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using an SSD "disk" for /
Message-ID:  <op.vll0o7qv8527sy@212-123-145-58.ip.telfort.nl>
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On Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:39:35 +0100, Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> =
=20
wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Pete French =20
> <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 =20
>> 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

Why do you need swap if the server is doing file serving only? You will =20
have more fun if you add more RAM then when you add more swap.

Ronald.



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