Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Scalability/performance

2007-06-25 Thread Peter Schuller
> FreeBSD plays it safe too. It's just that UFS, and other file systems on > FreeBSD, understand write caches and flush at appropriate times. Do you have something to cite w.r.t. UFS here? Because as far as I know, that is not correct. FreeBSD shipped with write caching turned off by default for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Scalability/performance

2007-06-24 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 10:21:14PM -0700, Anton B. Rang wrote: > > Oliver Schinagl wrote: > > > zo basically, what you are saying is that on FBSD there's no performane > > > issue, whereas on solaris there (can be if write caches aren't enabled) > > > > Solaris plays it safe by default. You can,

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Scalability/performance

2007-06-23 Thread Anton B. Rang
> Nothing sucks more than your "redundant" disk array > losing more disks than it can support and you lose all your data > anyway. You'd be better off doing a giant non-parity stripe and dumping to > tape on a regular basis. ;) Anyone who isn't dumping to tape (or some other reliable and [b]off-s

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Scalability/performance

2007-06-23 Thread Anton B. Rang
> Oliver Schinagl wrote: > > zo basically, what you are saying is that on FBSD there's no performane > > issue, whereas on solaris there (can be if write caches aren't enabled) > > Solaris plays it safe by default. You can, of course, override that safety. FreeBSD plays it safe too. It's just t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Scalability/performance

2007-06-20 Thread Toby Thain
On 20-Jun-07, at 12:23 PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: Hello, I'm quite interested in ZFS, like everybody else I suppose, and am about to install FBSD with ZFS. On that note, i have a different first question to start with. I personally am a Linux fanboy, and would love to see/use ZFS on linux

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Scalability/performance

2007-06-20 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> Hello, > > I'm quite interested in ZFS, like everybody else I > suppose, and am about > to install FBSD with ZFS. > > On that note, i have a different first question to > start with. I > personally am a Linux fanboy, and would love to > see/use ZFS on linux. I > assume that I can use those ZFS