Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 17:46:51 +0200 From: "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any options on crypt+zfs ? Message-ID: <op.wc4gsdoy8527sy@pinky> In-Reply-To: <090f695268b53508b424fde0025497bd.squirrel@eternamente.info> References: <090f695268b53508b424fde0025497bd.squirrel@eternamente.info>
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:32:43 +0200, Nenhum_de_Nos <matheus@eternamente.info> wrote: > hail, > > I have a soekris running an atom and 2GB RAM and ZFS using 7 drives, > small capacity though, to > test and study if I can make my home server this box and this way. It > will be a simple server, > three users tops. > > I followed the handbook and made the geli step on the disks: > > Geom name: label/zfs1.eli > State: ACTIVE > EncryptionAlgorithm: AES-XTS > KeyLength: 128 > Crypto: software > UsedKey: 0 > Flags: NONE > KeysAllocated: 38 > KeysTotal: 38 > Providers: > 1. Name: label/zfs1.eli > Mediasize: 160041881600 (149G) > Sectorsize: 4096 > Mode: r1w1e1 > Consumers: > 1. Name: label/zfs1 > Mediasize: 160041885184 (149G) > Sectorsize: 512 > Mode: r1w1e1 > > > all disks are this way (just 4 disks are on geli zfs). > > would it be faster, if I had geli over zfs, and not the other way (as is > now) ? > > my performance is too low (I know the hardware is not that much, but I > compared it to a friend's > arm based AP-Router gadget and my setup is when much equal. I have 1.6 > GHz Atom and 2GB ram, he > has not half this ... I know can't compare arm and x86 clock for clock > ...) > > I'll try to run geli on single disk, to see how much ZFS is impacting on > performance, but, is > there any other way around ? All I want is RAID5, and FreeBSD has not > developed RAID5 from GEOM > (AFAIK) since a long time. ZFS is the way people go in recent years. > > suggestions are welcome, just want to upgrade my old 8.0 BETA3 using > geom mirror/stripe to a newer > approach that would be supported by FreeBSD. > > I have an external enclosure for 4 SATA disks (port multiplier included) > using 4 disks, another > port multiplier 5x1 using now 3 disks, and: > > ahci1@pci0:13:0:0: class=0x010601 card=0x10601b21 chip=0x06121b21 > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'ASMedia Technology Inc.' > class = mass storage > subclass = SATA > > with two eSATA to the Port Multipliers. First try to look for the bottleneck. What is the performance without GELI? And what performance do you want to have? If you want performance, why do you use encryption on low-end hardware? Ronald. > > thanks, > > matheus > > machine: > ACPI Error: A valid RSDP was not found (20110527/tbxfroot-237) > Copyright (c) 1992-2012 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. > FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Wed Apr 11 13:04:15 BRT 2012 > root@macgyver:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/net6501-amd64 amd64 > ACPI Error: A valid RSDP was not found (20110527/tbxfroot-237) > CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU @ 1.60GHz (1600.04-MHz K8-class CPU) > Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x20661 Family = 6 Model = 26 > Stepping = 1 > Features=0xbfe9fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> > Features2=0x40e3bd<SSE3,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,MOVBE> > AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM> > AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF> > TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics > real memory = 2147352576 (2047 MB) > avail memory = 2046488576 (1951 MB) > MPTable: <Soekris net6501 > > Event timer "LAPIC" quality 400 > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs > FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 1 core(s) x 2 HTT threads > cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 > cpu1 (AP/HT): APIC ID: 1 > ioapic0: Assuming intbase of 0 > ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard > kbd0 at kbdmux0 > ACPI Error: A valid RSDP was not found (20110527/tbxfroot-237) > ACPI: Table initialisation failed: AE_NOT_FOUND > ACPI: Try disabling either ACPI or apic support. > cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard
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