ZFS FAQ (Was: SSD recommendations for ZFS cache/log)

Eitan Adler eadler at freebsd.org
Tue Nov 20 04:05:58 UTC 2012


On 16 November 2012 13:41, Eitan Adler <eadler at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 15 November 2012 23:58, Stephen McKay <smckay at internode.on.net> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 15th November 2012, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>
>>>Can people here please tell me what is wrong in the following content?
>>
>> A few things.  I'll intersperse them.
>>
>>>Is there additional data or questions to add?
>>
>> The whole ZFS world desperately needs good documentation.  There
>> are misconceptions everywhere.  There are good tuning hints and
>> bad (or out of date) ones.  Further, it depends on your target
>> application whether the defaults are fairly good or plain suck.
>
> New version of the patch taking into account the comments so far:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~eadler/files/add-zfs-faq-section.diff

Thanks for all the comments, private and public. I've committed a
modified version of the above.

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Eitan Adler
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