From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 22 15:13:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39ECB1065672 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:13:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from engywook@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC42F8FC1E for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:13:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from engywook@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i29so2284273wxd.7 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:13:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=aZFczUxYW96/5B8NVWTWrEBNjBzsh/GI/pAK3tpbxMM=; b=lOSqxYg05S3ZYXtUhXGsQfse8q96EqZOuwfUXqku3OI9CMWOaRE3L11j/tE3rSubgEjmFr4/1xs9bo9eBmv0l7Drq29OAxrU0Gaw41sxZ82mWMu4lU7/mWwk3KwO3noN3r3Thdjot8G1SE2VkD+xadCF0fYnZgMSNry+udgZJ5I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=aTAMkR946Ed6oqSfzUXDzukn3gRtx2ds+ja7aw0naeZ6vjSmT7sEl46mSAyb5bcdeQfdTnlCtr/GJDgGnFHT4HZmyL7k+geLFkXEK5V6sG76cBrAOzPrn4cquzFCi1IEZKYQVCVKZwFTP0FkrSzddf97kJF2VrXJaoXfCD0wblI= Received: by 10.70.29.14 with SMTP id c14mr5848963wxc.86.1206198822011; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:13:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.35.20 with HTTP; Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:13:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <24adbbc00803220813n5d0e4cd6r2f896e16365c6b36@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:13:41 +0100 From: "Daniel Andersson" To: Ender In-Reply-To: <47E45891.5010004@enderzone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <24adbbc00803211521t26b271e5wc8e3a27f228e29e4@mail.gmail.com> <47E45891.5010004@enderzone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A few questions about ZFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:13:43 -0000 Thanks for the reply! Would it still crash if I added two more disks to even out the load on the disks? Or will it still be a memory issue? On 22/03/2008, Ender wrote: > > 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. >