A few questions about ZFS

Ender ender at enderzone.com
Sat Mar 22 00:54:12 UTC 2008


Daniel Andersson wrote:
> Hiya!
>
> I've been thinking about trying out zfs for a while now. But as it is still
> kind of
> experimental I'm not sure if it'll be worth it. I'm currently running FBSD
> 7.0 i386
> but if I go with zfs I'll probably reinstall to amd64. Anyhow, the box acts
> primarily as a fileserver/fw/router. It has only 1gb ram though, which seems
>
> to be the minimum according to things I've read. If rtorrent uses 900+mb
> ram,
> and zfs needs 1gb to run properly, what will happen? crash? Even if I got
> another gb of ram, would it work under heavy writing/reading? I would
> probably
> set up a /zfs for it and leave the root, usr, etc partitions to UFS2.
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/muc.lists.freebsd.current/browse_thread/thread/436fa863a6be7f24/a245a67bc6423b62?lnk=raot
> Doesn't seem promising, I rarely hash stuff though. If it starts crashing I
> would have to.
>
> Would I be better of setting up some softraid or vinum?
>
> dmesg:
> http://pastebin.org/24780
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel Andersson
>
> P.S. How do I reply? RE: A few questions about ZFS in the subject?
>   

Even with AMD64 and a massive amount of ram (8+G) zfs will still crash 
under heavy load. Experimentation is always worth it, just do not use it 
for anything important.


More information about the freebsd-fs mailing list