Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 07:23:09 +0200 From: Albert Shih <Albert.Shih@obspm.fr> To: Oscar Hodgson <oscar.hodgson@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers? Message-ID: <20120601052309.GA32942@pcjas.obspm.fr> In-Reply-To: <CACxnZKM__Lt9LMabyUC_HOCg2zsMT=3bpqwVrGj16py1A=qffg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CACxnZKM__Lt9LMabyUC_HOCg2zsMT=3bpqwVrGj16py1A=qffg@mail.gmail.com>
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Le 31/05/2012 ? 11:32:33-0400, Oscar Hodgson a écrit > The subject is pretty much the question. Perhaps there's a better > place to be asking this question ... > > We have (very briefly) discussed the possibility of using FreeBSD > pizza boxes as a storage heads direct attached to external JBOD arrays > with ZFS. In perusing the list, I haven't stumbled across indications > of people actually doing this. External JBODs would be running 24 to > 48TB each, roughly. There would be a couple of units. The pizza > boxes would be used for computational tasks, and nominally would have > 8 cores and 96G+ RAM. > I've Dell R610 + 48 Go Ram, 2x 6 core + 4 * MD1200 (36*3T + 12*2T) [root@filer ~]# zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT filer 119T 35,4T 83,9T 29% 1.00x ONLINE - [root@filer ~]# Work very fine (I can't say I've long experience because the server is up since just 4 months). The ZFS is very good, easy to manage, very fast. They're two default IMHO : Eat lot of Ram cannot synchronize two zpool automaticaly like HammerFS Regards. JAS -- Albert SHIH DIO bâtiment 15 Observatoire de Paris 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon Cedex Téléphone : 01 45 07 76 26/06 86 69 95 71 xmpp: jas@jabber.obspm.fr Heure local/Local time: ven 1 jui 2012 07:17:47 CEST
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