Converting sysinstalled FreeBSD into ZFS-only server.

Andriy Bakay andriy at irbisnet.com
Mon Aug 9 20:49:24 UTC 2010


1. In your post you are using dedicated partition for swap. Did it provide
any advantages versus swap on ZFS volume?
2. You are suggesting to set 'vm_kmem_size' value to 150% of RAM. What
pros. and cons. against following formula:

vm_kmem_size = RAM / 2
vfs.zfs.arc_max = vm_kmem_size - 512M

3. Could you be more verbose about your ZFS layout, what major advantages
it provide against for example the following:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot. I found it very interesting
but I need more info.

Regards,
Andriy



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