Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 00:00:24 +0000 From: Dr Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> To: Mark Blackman <mark@exonetric.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS on a single disk? Message-ID: <53FA69D2-2EF0-4CBF-985B-6E710F15FE02@tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <615F1346-E830-42E2-B229-4181B8BC56BD@exonetric.com> References: <0E00DAFC-C39F-47DC-B9AF-16419C20997F@tao.org.uk> <615F1346-E830-42E2-B229-4181B8BC56BD@exonetric.com>
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On 1 Mar 2011, at 23:49, Mark Blackman wrote: >=20 > On 1 Mar 2011, at 23:27, Dr Josef Karthauser wrote: >=20 >> Does it make sense to run zfs on a single disk? >>=20 >> I'm setting up a FreeBSD host over at a Xen provider, with a single = 80GB disk image. Ideally I'd like to run ZFS on this system, for = snapshot and flexible creation of filesystems and quotas. Has anyone got = any recommendations for me in this regard? Am I crazy? >=20 > Not crazy, I do this as well, all the time just to get the management = capabilities and > leave hardware RAID to manage the availability. >=20 > - Mark Any idea what the performance implications are? Can I get away without a = ZIL or ARC and still get a decent performance? Joe=
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