ZFS install on a partition

[Albert Shih]

 Le 18/05/2013 ? 09:02:15-0400, Paul Kraus a écrit
> On May 18, 2013, at 3:21 AM, Ivailo Tanusheff
> <Ivailo.Tanusheff at skrill.com> wrote:
> 
> > If you use HBA/JBOD then you will rely on the software RAID of the
> > ZFS system. Yes, this RAID is good, but unless you use SSD disks to
> > boost performance and a lot of RAM the hardware raid should be more
> > reliable and mush faster.
> 
> 	Why will the hardware raid be more reliable ? While hardware raid is
> 	susceptible to uncorrectable errors from the physical drives
> 	(hardware raid controllers rely on the drives to report bad reads and
> 	writes), and the uncorrectable error rate for modern drives is such
> 	that with high capacity drives (1TB and over) you are almost certain
> 	to run into a couple over the operational life of the drive. 10^-14
> 	for cheap drives and 10^-15 for better drives, very occasionally I
> 	see a drive rated for 10^-16. Run the math and see how many TB worth
> 	of data you have to write and read (remember these failures are
> 	generally read failures with NO indication that a failure occurred,
> 	bad data is just returned to the system).
> 
> 	In terms of performance HW raid is faster, generally due to the cache
> 	RAM built into the HW raid controller. ZFS makes good use of system,

Before I'm installing my server under 9.0 + ZFS I do some benchmarks with
ionice to compare 

    FreeBSD 9.0+ ZFS + 12 disk SATA 7200 rpm vs CentOS + H700 + 12 disk SAS 15krpm

(Both are same Dell poweredge).

And the ZFS+12 disk sata goes much faster than CentOS+H700+ext4 almost everywhere. Only
for small file AND small record size the ZFS is slower than CentOS. 

The server don't have SSD. He got 48Go of ram. 

Regards.

JAS
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