On 29/10/2007, Tek Bahadur Limbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I created a ZFS file system like the following with /mypool/cache being > the partition for the Squid cache: > > 18:51:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ zfs list > NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > mypool 478M 31.0G 10.0M /mypool > mypool/cache 230M 9.78G 230M /mypool/cache > mypool/home 226M 31.0G 226M /export/home > > Note: I only have a few days of experience on Solaris and I might have > made some mistakes with the above ZFS partitions!
No, that looks ok. You can just 'zfs set quota=<something else> mypool/cache' to be bigger in the future if need be. > Basically, I want to know if somebody here on this list is using a ZFS > file system for a proxy cache and what will be it's performance? Will it > improve and degrade Squid's performance? Or better still, is there any > kind of benchmark tools for ZFS performance? filebench sounds like it'd be useful for you. It's coming in the next Nevada release, but since it looks like you're on Solaris 10, take a look at: http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/entry/filebench Remember to 'zfs set atime=off mypool/cache' - there's no need for it for squid caches. -- Rasputnik :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns http://number9.hellooperator.net/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
