Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 31 May 2009 17:47:33 +0300
From:      Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com>
To:        Ronald Klop <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Morgan_Wesstr=F6m?= <freebsd-stable@pp.dyndns.biz>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS on top of GELI / Intel Atom 330 system
Message-ID:  <cf9b1ee00905310747l71ef2679t26503188f9857bb7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.uuss79bt8527sy@82-170-177-25.ip.telfort.nl>
References:  <cf9b1ee00905290119w5eea0bfmd018d1c1282ac310@mail.gmail.com> <4A1FAB45.4040904@h3q.com> <cf9b1ee00905290312j2d1aeda8y3e4d8f4b1a0492f5@mail.gmail.com> <4A1FBD4A.5080204@pp.dyndns.biz> <cf9b1ee00905290434t4918fb95p9aec8e4253249f4e@mail.gmail.com> <op.uuss79bt8527sy@82-170-177-25.ip.telfort.nl>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I am pretty sure that adding more disks wouldn't solve anything in
this case, only either using a faster CPU or a faster crypto system.
When you are capable of 70 MB/s reads on a single unecrypted disk, but
only 24 MB/s reads off the same disk while encrypted, your disk speed
isn't the problem.

- Dan Naumov



On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Ronald Klop
<ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 May 2009 13:34:57 +0200, Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Now that I have evaluated the numbers and my needs a bit, I am really
>> confused about what appropriate course of action for me would be.
>>
>> 1) Use ZFS without GELI and hope that zfs-crypto get implemented in
>> Solaris and ported to FreeBSD "soon" and that when it does, it won't
>> come with such a dramatic performance decrease as GELI/ZFS seems to
>> result in.
>> 2) Go ahead with the original plan of using GELI/ZFS and grind my
>> teeth at the 24 MB/s read speed off a single disk.
>
> 3) Add extra disks. It will speed up reading. One disk extra will about
> double the read speed.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?cf9b1ee00905310747l71ef2679t26503188f9857bb7>