From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jun 25 20:05:57 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B7EA98C21E for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:05:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x22e.google.com (mail-ig0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22e]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 645CA18C2 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:05:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: by igblr2 with SMTP id lr2so104889659igb.0 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:05:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=FX6mM3uj+uwFxXQ8PXxoLWG0k8LtjnpbIsmfRnMgKl4=; b=mtj2VCz6ObCLweuroDwTxI1qY+7Nwe9X4eY/7mOpqxhDc09vIbVXesCnuImE5QxACs TqdfKELgJnFffymaiIbJnXen5O1iUif2lX8tEzm0Nyr7J7N98nJRDKp2qgwHWCy1UwQ9 EqiLPhjorfTx3UYxCx+Pw+jEBZsHwhe4L6GNqSI4vxWMzD/4hsegImrd8hCgt69u35fQ DyFR9LDiYUojOXu/iFS8z9Rdxy71Tp4M+s+pZ3wfCZspupQtNnIeoeKQtbWvHM5wIZyT brnq8axaLnwDamCSpvE9PZYozDR0QdF+DUlCYNqeCW03Ea1uvEJUvxUj1tE/EPgnqmQo HfEg== X-Received: by 10.107.131.25 with SMTP id f25mr36909488iod.53.1435262756883; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:05:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([50.243.6.59]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id u38sm20231351ioi.0.2015.06.25.13.05.55 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:05:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <558C5F23.2070001@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 14:05:55 -0600 From: jd1008 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any utils worth installing a GUI on a server for? References: <558B3F60.7060809@sneakertech.com> <558B41A3.1050506@gmail.com> <558B45C1.3040101@sneakertech.com> <558B46D4.90505@gmail.com> <20150625065727.e728118a09a939f408ec8526@sohara.org> <558C4756.1030805@gmail.com> <20150625202835.62d37aed@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20150625202835.62d37aed@gumby.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:05:57 -0000 On 06/25/2015 01:28 PM, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:24:22 -0600 > jd1008 wrote: > >> I have not used Sun's ZFS, so was not familiar with it. >> Found an interesting evaluation of it at >> http://www.zfsbuild.com/2010/05/26/zfs-raid-levels/ > FWIW ZFS has been a mainstream FreeBSD feature for some time now. It's > licence allowed the SUN code to run in the FreeBSD kernel whereas > Linux had to recreate it, or adapt the original version to run in > userland. Yes - the 'fuse' land. I would love to see io performance differences between the FreeBSD implementation vs the linux implementation. I gamble that running zfs in the kernel might provide faster i/o but not sure how much faster.