Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:38:10 +0200 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server? Message-ID: <4873D032.7040708@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080706175206.B5376@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <1a5a68400806080604ped08ce8p120fc21107e7de81@mail.gmail.com> <4F9C9299A10AE74E89EA580D14AA10A61A193E@royal64.emp.zapto.org> <20080612132527.K5722@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <200807060222.40004.lists@jnielsen.net> <20080706175206.B5376@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Wojciech Puchar wrote: > ZFS can be installed on partitions and share disks with other things, > but the performance will be bad. There is nothing ZFS-specific about this statement. > ZFS - contrary to every other filesystem that use FreeBSD disk I/O > scheduler - does it's own I/O scheduling, so it assumes it's the only > user of physical drive. This is false. ZFS uses GEOM along with everything else in FreeBSD, and GEOM is the thing that eventually talks to the disk driver to perform I/O. Kris
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