RHEL to FreeBSD file server

John jwd at FreeBSD.org
Thu Nov 15 00:18:40 UTC 2012


----- Julian Elischer's Original Message -----
> On 11/13/12 1:19 PM, Jason Keltz wrote:
> >On 11/13/2012 12:41 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> >>On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, kpneal at pobox.com wrote:
> >>>
> >>>With your setup of 11 mirrors you have a good mixture of read
> >>>and write
> >>>performance, but you've compromised on the safety. The reason
> >>>that RAID 6

...

> >By the way - on another note - what do you or other list members
> >think of the new Intel SSD DC S3700 as ZIL? Sounds very promising
> >when it's finally available.  I spent a lot of time researching
> >ZILs today, and one thing I can say is that I have a major
> >headache now because of it!!
> 
> ZIL is best served by battery backed up ram or something.. it's tiny
> and not a really good fit an SSD (maybe just  a partition) L2ARC on
> the other hand is a really good use for SSD.

Well, since you brought the subject up :-)

Do you have any recommendations for an NVRAM unit usable with Freebsd?

-John


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