Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 11:00:21 +0200 From: Albert Shih <Albert.Shih@obspm.fr> To: Paul Kraus <paul@kraus-haus.org> Cc: Ivailo Tanusheff <Ivailo.Tanusheff@skrill.com>, Liste FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS install on a partition Message-ID: <20130523090021.GD1426@pcjas.obspm.fr> In-Reply-To: <A9599DD7-1A32-4607-BC83-2E6E4D03C560@kraus-haus.org> References: <F744BBF1-D98C-47BF-9546-14D1A9CB3733@todoo.biz> <372082cab2064846809615a8073e022c@DB3PR07MB059.eurprd07.prod.outlook.com> <A9599DD7-1A32-4607-BC83-2E6E4D03C560@kraus-haus.org>
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Le 18/05/2013 ? 09:02:15-0400, Paul Kraus a écrit
> On May 18, 2013, at 3:21 AM, Ivailo Tanusheff
> <Ivailo.Tanusheff@skrill.com> wrote:
>
> > If you use HBA/JBOD then you will rely on the software RAID of the
> > ZFS system. Yes, this RAID is good, but unless you use SSD disks to
> > boost performance and a lot of RAM the hardware raid should be more
> > reliable and mush faster.
>
> Why will the hardware raid be more reliable ? While hardware raid is
> susceptible to uncorrectable errors from the physical drives
> (hardware raid controllers rely on the drives to report bad reads and
> writes), and the uncorrectable error rate for modern drives is such
> that with high capacity drives (1TB and over) you are almost certain
> to run into a couple over the operational life of the drive. 10^-14
> for cheap drives and 10^-15 for better drives, very occasionally I
> see a drive rated for 10^-16. Run the math and see how many TB worth
> of data you have to write and read (remember these failures are
> generally read failures with NO indication that a failure occurred,
> bad data is just returned to the system).
>
> In terms of performance HW raid is faster, generally due to the cache
> RAM built into the HW raid controller. ZFS makes good use of system,
Before I'm installing my server under 9.0 + ZFS I do some benchmarks with
ionice to compare
FreeBSD 9.0+ ZFS + 12 disk SATA 7200 rpm vs CentOS + H700 + 12 disk SAS 15krpm
(Both are same Dell poweredge).
And the ZFS+12 disk sata goes much faster than CentOS+H700+ext4 almost everywhere. Only
for small file AND small record size the ZFS is slower than CentOS.
The server don't have SSD. He got 48Go of ram.
Regards.
JAS
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