A few questions about ZFS

[Daniel Andersson]

Thanks for the reply! Would it still crash if I added two more disks to even
out the load on the disks? Or will it still be a memory issue?

On 22/03/2008, Ender <ender at enderzone.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>