Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:44:46 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives? Message-ID: <gh1erh$n6s$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <200812010959.15647.kirk@strauser.com> References: <200812010959.15647.kirk@strauser.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Kirk Strauser wrote: > At this point, I'm almost ready to go back to good ol' UFS2, but I'd hate to > give up that easy addition of new filesystems. I *could* have a single 700GB > root FS but that just doesn't seem right. Are there any good, tested GEOM- > based ways of getting that functionality, perhaps along the lines of using > something like gvirstor and growfs as needed? There's nothing as convenient as ZFS (really... anywhere) :( . I'm still hoping someone will sponsor development or porting of a widely used journalling file system like XFS, JFS, even ext3/4 to FreeBSD, but in the meantime UFS2+SU isn't that bad. Practically the only way to break it is if you have hardware errors that end up corrupting file system data. The need to run full fsck occasionally (as opposed to the softupdates-assisted one) is annoying but 700 GB should be manageable with 3-4 GB of memory. The softupdates-assisted fsck actually works very well in all but the heaviest loads (i.e. when the server is swamped by requests immediately after booting). You could also try gjournal but benchmark and test it first for your workload. gvirstor is a theoretically good option if you need its specific functionality, only be doubly sure to benchmark it for your specific workload as it has some /unusual/ performance characteristics. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkk0Pq4ACgkQldnAQVacBcgs3ACgsarC1b6iw3VEwAkIIfMESyfK fngAn0+zMKciomB95cI8C8FxzmJN7v3U =qNR9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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