On 18 May 2013, at 01:15, Joshua Isom <jri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Your hardware raid should be faster than ZFS raid. Don't use zfs raid > because there will be no benefit.
Self healing much ? I wouldn't dream of dropping it for a 20mb/s performance increase from a HW controller. What if the controller derps and writes bad data ? > You'll get the performance of software raid using CPU time, along with lost > space for already backed up data. > > ZFS should work fine. A lot of the tuning on the wiki page isn't needed > anymore, so it's not too bad. The biggest thing to be careful with is > upgrading your zpool, every so often your boot blocks may need updated and if > you forget, you can't boot. You won't upgrade your pool often of course. > Reliability shouldn't be an issue, it's FreeBSD. ZFS will make it easier to > play around with jails, have fun and create a 1000 node beowulf on one system. > > On 5/17/2013 5:24 PM, b...@todoo.biz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a question regarding ZFS install on a system setup using an Intel >> Modular. >> >> This system runs various flavor of FreeBSD and Linux using a shared pool >> (LUNs). >> These LUNs have been configured in RAID 6 using the internal controller (LSI >> logic). >> >> So from the OS point of view there is just a volume available. >> >> >> I know I should install a system using HBA and JBOD configuration - but >> unfortunately this is not an option for this server. >> >> What would you advise ? >> >> 1. Can I use an existing partition and setup ZFS on this partition using a >> standard Zpool (no RAID). >> >> 2. Should I use any other solution in order to setup this (like full ZFS >> install on disk using the entire pool with ZFS). >> >> 3. Should I avoid using ZFS since my system is not well tuned and It would >> be asking for trouble to use ZFS in these conditions. >> >> >> P.S. Stability is a must for this system - so I won't die if you answer "3" >> and tell me to keep on using UFS. >> >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> ________________________________________________ >> «?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§ >> ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ >> BSD - BSD - BSD - BSD - BSD - BSD - BSD - BSD - >> ________________________________________________ >> «?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§«?»¥«?»§ >> ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ >> PGP ID --> 0x1BA3C2FD >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
