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> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=7rfMGoVgyEA0z28XS47dR_0f5zSW96pJMKow0@mail.gmail.com> References: <4CD04AEC.8040607@aldan.algebra.com> <E1PDdUQ-000Fbg-S5@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> <AANLkTi=7rfMGoVgyEA0z28XS47dR_0f5zSW96pJMKow0@mail.gmail.com>
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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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