From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 1 05:24:16 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91AD61067BF2 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 05:23:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Albert.Shih@obspm.fr) Received: from smtp-int-m.obspm.fr (smtp-int-m.obspm.fr [145.238.187.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF868FC0A for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2012 05:23:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pcjas.obspm.fr (pcjas.obspm.fr [145.238.184.233]) by smtp-int-m.obspm.fr (8.14.3/8.14.3/SIO Observatoire de Paris - 07/2009) with ESMTP id q515N9MP018777 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 1 Jun 2012 07:23:10 +0200 Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 07:23:09 +0200 From: Albert Shih To: Oscar Hodgson Message-ID: <20120601052309.GA32942@pcjas.obspm.fr> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Miltered: at smtp-int-m.obspm.fr with ID 4FC851BD.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http : // j-chkmail dot ensmp dot fr)! X-j-chkmail-Enveloppe: 4FC851BD.000/145.238.184.233/pcjas.obspm.fr/pcjas.obspm.fr/ Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:24:16 -0000 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