Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:53:37 -0400 From: Ender <ender@enderzone.com> To: Daniel Andersson <engywook@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A few questions about ZFS Message-ID: <47E45891.5010004@enderzone.com> In-Reply-To: <24adbbc00803211521t26b271e5wc8e3a27f228e29e4@mail.gmail.com> References: <24adbbc00803211521t26b271e5wc8e3a27f228e29e4@mail.gmail.com>
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Daniel Andersson wrote: > Hiya! > > I've been thinking about trying out zfs for a while now. But as it is still > kind of > experimental I'm not sure if it'll be worth it. I'm currently running FBSD > 7.0 i386 > but if I go with zfs I'll probably reinstall to amd64. Anyhow, the box acts > primarily as a fileserver/fw/router. It has only 1gb ram though, which seems > > to be the minimum according to things I've read. If rtorrent uses 900+mb > ram, > and zfs needs 1gb to run properly, what will happen? crash? Even if I got > another gb of ram, would it work under heavy writing/reading? I would > probably > set up a /zfs for it and leave the root, usr, etc partitions to UFS2. > > http://groups.google.com/group/muc.lists.freebsd.current/browse_thread/thread/436fa863a6be7f24/a245a67bc6423b62?lnk=raot > Doesn't seem promising, I rarely hash stuff though. If it starts crashing I > would have to. > > Would I be better of setting up some softraid or vinum? > > dmesg: > http://pastebin.org/24780 > > Cheers, > Daniel Andersson > > P.S. How do I reply? RE: A few questions about ZFS in the subject? > Even with AMD64 and a massive amount of ram (8+G) zfs will still crash under heavy load. Experimentation is always worth it, just do not use it for anything important.
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