Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 13:39:10 -0600 From: "Chad Leigh Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: Jaime Kikpole <jkikpole@cairodurham.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS in a VM? Message-ID: <9C96EB4B-A230-4A26-BDC3-067367A61E34@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <CA%2Bsg5RQgF7%2BAQu9P0Bt8USF8722QCi=qJ2XQ8RbNQ92cv9tNTg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2Bsg5RQgF7%2BAQu9P0Bt8USF8722QCi=qJ2XQ8RbNQ92cv9tNTg@mail.gmail.com>
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> On May 27, 2015, at 11:31 AM, Jaime Kikpole <jkikpole@cairodurham.org> = wrote: >=20 > Can I run a FreeBSD system in a virtual machine and use ZFS? The VM > environment is a commercial system based on Linux's KVM, if that > matters. I do. I do it not so much for any performance benefits, if any, ZFS = offers, but more for data integrity. You need to tune it since the VM = based disks are not the same as physical disks. I run into performance = issues when the =E2=80=9Cdisk=E2=80=9D gets to a certain usage level (in = terms of used capacity).
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