Thanks, I've read some of the FAQ and install instructions and it seems pretty straightforward... I wish I could use Solaris but we're virtualizing everything on our Dell blade through VMWare ESXi and it's somewhat of a "company policy" to use the template Debian that's maintained by the senior sysadmin.
About the compression, I've read some benchmarks/tests and the default lzjb algorithm seems to be a good cost/benefit for the usual applications. Without many reads to the filesystem, gzip compresses a whole lot better tho. On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 16:01, Dave McGuire <mcgu...@neurotica.com> wrote: > > Good luck! > > FYI, my mail spools are on ZFS filesystems under Solaris on UltraSPARC. > It is lightning fast with 100+ dovecot imap processes pounding away. I've > not yet enabled compression and done the copy/recopy dance, though. > > -Dave > > > On 08/19/2011 02:57 PM, Felipe Scarel wrote: > >> I was not aware of that... I went with FUSE to test the deduplication >> feature of ZFS. I'll check out this link you've provided, many thanks >> Dave. >> :) >> >> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 15:48, Dave McGuire<mcgu...@neurotica.com> >> wrote: >> >> On 08/19/2011 02:45 PM, Felipe Scarel wrote: >>> >>> I'm testing out ZFS-fuse on my new install (talked about it on the other >>>> thread), no issues so far. The builtin deduplication and compression >>>> sure >>>> do >>>> help a lot, roughly 30% less storage space required so far. >>>> >>>> They don't advertise it as exactly "production" quality, but I'm willing >>>> to >>>> try it out, we're doing regular backups. The mail system hasn't gone >>>> live >>>> yet though, so I'm a bit uneasy on the performance side of things under >>>> heavy load. >>>> >>>> >>> You are aware that there's a real in-kernel ZFS implementation under >>> Linux >>> now, right? See http://zfsonlinux.org/. I've done some very basic >>> testing with it, and so far, it works. Going through FUSE is slower than >>> pissing tar; this implementation won't have that problem. >>> >>> FUSE is useful for many things. Performance-sensitive filesystems on >>> production servers is oh-so-NOT one of them. ;) >>> >>> -Dave >>> >>> -- >>> Dave McGuire >>> Port Charlotte, FL >>> >>> >> > > -- > Dave McGuire > Port Charlotte, FL >
