Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:03:05 +0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org, David Nellans <dnellans@fusionio.com> Subject: Re: Pointer to info on migrating from UFS2 -> ZFS? Message-ID: <5355E9F9.5080401@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20140421191528.GI1321@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <20140421191528.GI1321@albert.catwhisker.org>
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On 4/22/14, 3:15 AM, David Wolfskill wrote: > At work, we have several machines presently running FreeBSD/amd64 > stable/9 @r257221 that are used for building software within a jail. > They currently use UFS2 + soft updates (no journaling). > > I am interested in finding out how the behavior of one of these systems > changes if I replace the UFS2 FS where the builds are actually done with > a ZFS FS. > > I would prefer to avoid the need to touch the machine(s) for this > exercise, so I'm interested in trying the exercise using the same > hardware -- though possibly configured somewhat differently. > > What would be a good place to start my research? [Caveat: While I've > used UFS longer than ... some readers of this message have been alive, > I've not administered ZFS before.] > > Thanks! > > Peace, > david my experience so far is that ZFS is great if you want to do 'storage things' but that for straight out speed you might want to stick with ufs+SU.
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