Tim writes: 

> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Ian Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> 
>>
>> Does anyone have any tuning tips for a Subversion repository on ZFS?  The
>> repository will mainly be storing binary (MS Office documents). 
>>
>> It looks like a vanilla, uncompressed file system is the best bet. 
>>
> 
> I believe this is called sharepoint :D 

Don't mention that abomination! 

> I think the biggest deal/question
> will be: how many files?  How big is the pool?  Do they all need to be on
> the same pool, or can you split it up.  The biggest issue performance wise
> you'll see with zfs is from millions of tiny files.  That would also
> determine tuning. 
> 
I'm setting up a trial for one project, there are about 3000 files, 1GB of 
data.  Office files and small are orthogonal concepts! 

> I guess the other question would be how much ram?  What sort of backend
> storage?  FC/SATA/SAS?  Internal, coming off a SAN?  I'm assuming the files
> won't get hit very hard if they're just office documents, but you may have a
> special use-case :) 
>
The data's on a Thumper, 16GB of RAM.  Most of the load will probably be 
generating deltas on commits. 

Ian
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