Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 11:24:12 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Storage question Message-ID: <55F05BE2.4000004@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <55F05A55.1080500@physics.umn.edu> References: <55EF3D23.5060009@hiwaay.net> <20150908220639.20412cbd@gumby.homeunix.com> <55EF5409.8020007@yahoo.com> <55EFC2DA.3020101@hiwaay.net> <5EB5C2C2-575B-40BD-BF6A-85F396C058FE@kraus-haus.org> <55F058FC.6080204@hiwaay.net> <55F05A55.1080500@physics.umn.edu>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 09/09/15 11:18, Graham Allan wrote: > On 9/9/2015 11:04 AM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >> >> Hmmmm .... could you amplify on that point about no compression w/ >> MythTV ? This box will have 16 GB of RAM & 32 GB of swap, so I *think* I >> will be OK on RAM. I will probably stream video over my network most of >> the time, but might be using the ZFS as well .... I just got done >> copying the stuff from >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/9.0-RELEASE verbatim into >> 2 shell scripts to automate the setup, but if there are known issues w/ >> MythTV & ZFS+compression, more rethinking will be needed. > > Just that media files tend not to compress further. I have ZFS on my > home NAS box too, and though I do still have compression enabled I > shouldn't because the compression ratio is 1.00! > > I also wouldn't hesitate to use ZFS on a machine with 16G or 8G RAM. > > The system installer does a fine job of setting it up for you > (including a separate partition for swap). > > G. Hmmmm .... OK, I guess I could not enable compression on /home, that seems feasible. If all it is is a waste of cycles I can live w/ that (if everything else is OK), I was just worried there might be some more dire issue .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?55F05BE2.4000004>