From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon May 22 20:55:05 2017 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 D14C1D775B4 for ; Mon, 22 May 2017 20:55:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qt0-x22c.google.com (mail-qt0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::22c]) (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 80E7016F3 for ; Mon, 22 May 2017 20:55:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@gmail.com) Received: by mail-qt0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id f55so112055039qta.3 for ; Mon, 22 May 2017 13:55:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=Ly4fIMVaKl1LVFeg64MOtmXGvQGMGXfGe7qfxDxYEBw=; b=cDvcDpZot/Xcne5N8R8J+/g+bdQ7uxgtYbLgaH5cO9HKVRcJoTDDyrE4+cb9z/ncEC 96/38G1AWGJ1D+oyeM3Y3D4xw+lALbEFgjKnSJlX4RH7dKzPuEF9xiLW6MaxAsNB2S/d edN18ryicwtkdBrhNcKgI01c+DtcrPPGpzz3uG+wPsTa2Ky3Qnzei9Me6csvEbOtigkK kWDvI6ZRJTzOjDR/QjdddSZKqlvN4XcSJwM4mSergPnIgNxchOKEI7gvQFPHkVJsuMDd Ku3+Wshkoboiw0Fjpkd0WGhg5UlYgaTCJ5UACiS7I9JWM4GtYFYKu5/lpsfUlZFTv4GP rTiA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=Ly4fIMVaKl1LVFeg64MOtmXGvQGMGXfGe7qfxDxYEBw=; b=hJUjQf5wnJh7mtoiZmRFqTFBo+L8FEwAkhrgJIu98P1jSRqtEfSnfbu2kVQ/Kz2lf2 274TnBXcRyD7rPPNXwfcaxyp9ruF3y7UaljY784BR1HCx2JtEaC+XBSzqwMMH77yEzsR IgLxP2Dc/gFKQplw5t5Ld0JzqKU/D07jUez3bvJbPYjmYyhg3snKkGUQLTEwG1pcP9Ws epUXay7j/mrDCqJ3xuvQZZxksLDl7PFaaxeFyPCqnYoFDd5mFpYjfeybsjB0D/qMapAO 0Ot7rcTWWFGOi6Ar1BfsLTzm51S/XMARWogtz1hUOCYyvELMUGHLyr/2fnHf6F6pDRGA BcHQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AODbwcDgB4aGzeuUBLD+LJMZPbzDNQyuIId5IF2/wSQE8+5SGAuofxTn BPo1nG9i8MxlGa7HTs0VXwpKQEmFeA== X-Received: by 10.200.41.165 with SMTP id 34mr25319544qts.243.1495486504712; Mon, 22 May 2017 13:55:04 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.12.135.167 with HTTP; Mon, 22 May 2017 13:55:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: krad Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 21:55:04 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ZFS root on single SSD? To: Aaron Cc: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 20:55:05 -0000 stay with jails as much as you can, as they will be more stable and far more lightwieght On 22 May 2017 at 07:26, Aaron wrote: > Yea, pretty much this. Don't need the same level of availability. Worst > case, I'm a bit annoyed and rebuild the OS and restore the configs from > backup. Now I just need to figure out jails and bhyve for the services > since I haven't worked with either before :) There's a couple of bhyve > front ends I've been looking at, sorta on the fence for which one. Really I > just need to pick one and run with it. > > --Aaron > > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 5:05 AM, krad wrote: > > > The big question is what availability do you need on this server? As its > a > > home system I guess not as much as say an enterprise one. Therefore I > would > > imagine all the benefits of manageability that come with zfs will out > weigh > > the downside, even if running on a single volume. Boot environments are a > > really big thing to safe guard yourself during upgrade time. Although in > > theory you could do something with ufs its never going to be as good as > > with zfs. Also remember mirroring isnt backup, mirroring is about > > availability. Therefore live with a single drive, but backup the contents > > regularly. > > > > On 16 May 2017 at 06:45, Aaron wrote: > > > >> So, I've been running ZFS root mirror across 2 spinning disks, and I'm > >> upgrading my home server/nas and planning on running root on a spare > SSD. > >> However, I'm unsure if it'd be better to run UFS as a single drive root > >> instead of ZFS, although I do love all of the ZFS features (snapshots, > >> COW, > >> scrubbing, etc) and would still like to keep that for my root drive, > even > >> if I'm not mirroring at all. I do notice that FreeBSD has TRIM support > for > >> ZFS (see http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Features#TRIM_Support). > >> > >> So is there a good reason NOT to run ZFS root on a single drive SSD? > >> > >> --Aaron > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe > >> @freebsd.org" > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >