Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 16:13:41 +0100 From: "Daniel Andersson" <engywook@gmail.com> To: Ender <ender@enderzone.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A few questions about ZFS Message-ID: <24adbbc00803220813n5d0e4cd6r2f896e16365c6b36@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47E45891.5010004@enderzone.com> References: <24adbbc00803211521t26b271e5wc8e3a27f228e29e4@mail.gmail.com> <47E45891.5010004@enderzone.com>
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Thanks for the reply! Would it still crash if I added two more disks to even out the load on the disks? Or will it still be a memory issue? On 22/03/2008, Ender <ender@enderzone.com> wrote: > > Daniel Andersson wrote: > > Hiya! > > > > I've been thinking about trying out zfs for a while now. But as it is > still > > kind of > > experimental I'm not sure if it'll be worth it. I'm currently running > FBSD > > 7.0 i386 > > but if I go with zfs I'll probably reinstall to amd64. Anyhow, the box > acts > > primarily as a fileserver/fw/router. It has only 1gb ram though, which > seems > > > > to be the minimum according to things I've read. If rtorrent uses 900+mb > > ram, > > and zfs needs 1gb to run properly, what will happen? crash? Even if I > got > > another gb of ram, would it work under heavy writing/reading? I would > > probably > > set up a /zfs for it and leave the root, usr, etc partitions to UFS2. > > > > > http://groups.google.com/group/muc.lists.freebsd.current/browse_thread/thread/436fa863a6be7f24/a245a67bc6423b62?lnk=raot > > Doesn't seem promising, I rarely hash stuff though. If it starts > crashing I > > would have to. > > > > Would I be better of setting up some softraid or vinum? > > > > dmesg: > > http://pastebin.org/24780 > > > > Cheers, > > Daniel Andersson > > > > P.S. How do I reply? RE: A few questions about ZFS in the subject? > > > > > Even with AMD64 and a massive amount of ram (8+G) zfs will still crash > under heavy load. Experimentation is always worth it, just do not use it > for anything important. >
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