Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-09 Thread Matthias Gamsjager
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Wojciech Puchar 
woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote:

  Needing fsck because the drive is failing and not able to store and
 retrieve data reliably any more is a whole different thing.


 or bad data stored because of non-disk errors.


 in this case any filesystem will store the wrong data. This has little to
do with ZFS.

Beside in production one should run with ECC memory to eliminate
the possibility of incorrect data from memory
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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-09 Thread Bruce Cran

On 09/08/2012 16:09, Matthias Gamsjager wrote:

Beside in production one should run with ECC memory to eliminate
the possibility of incorrect data from memory


ECC doesn't detect all memory errors.

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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar

Of course ZFS doesn't need fsck. Until it fails.



Did you personally try ZFS ?


of course.
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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 07/08/2012 22:09, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
 Of course ZFS doesn't need fsck. Until it fails.

It doesn't need fsck for the normal case of filesystem corruption due to
system crashes: in that case, you stand to lose maybe the last one or
two IO transactions that hadn't made it onto the disk yet, but the data
that was already on the disk will still be consistent.

Needing fsck because the drive is failing and not able to store and
retrieve data reliably any more is a whole different thing.  ZFS at
least will discover that this is happening due to the built-in
checksumming and avoid many instances of silent corruption.  What it
can't do is take a filesystem containing random errors and reconstruct a
pristine version from it.  But then what filesystem can?

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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar

Needing fsck because the drive is failing and not able to store and
retrieve data reliably any more is a whole different thing.


or bad data stored because of non-disk errors.


least will discover that this is happening due to the built-in
checksumming and avoid many instances of silent corruption.  What it
can't do is take a filesystem containing random errors and reconstruct a
pristine version from it.  But then what filesystem can?

the question is how much can.

Anyway ok i will not try anymore to stop you from your ZFS religion.

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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-07 Thread Marco Muskus

El 05/08/12 18:10, Wojciech Puchar escribió:

really - stick with FreeBSD UFS. it is really best.


Yes UFS is very good, but very hight IO ZFS is fastest if you use 
L2ARC/ZIL on SSD.

if...

better just move heavy used things on SSD and rest on HDD. really it's 
fastest.





Yes, you can do that ... until the SSD is full
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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-07 Thread Marco Muskus

El 05/08/12 20:05, Anonymous Remailer (austria) escribió:

I think that XFS  JFS are more mature filesystems than ZFS

This is not up for discussion.


but the feature set of ZFS i ahead in the future.

Too many iPads, iPhones, etc?


For a NFS server first I'll go with ZFS because the consistence in disk

If not spelling, or grammar...


and speed will gonna be the differentiator.

A high-school education may well have been the differentiator, but that's
not important right now. Journaling filesystems are not known for speed.
EXT2 will probably outperform ZFS as far as NFS servers go.


English is not my native language, so i can make mistakes. ZFS is the 
way to go if you need consistency + speed on a NFS server/service.




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Be The Differentiator

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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-07 Thread Marco Muskus

El 05/08/12 18:13, Wojciech Puchar escribió:
with ZFS because the consistence in disk and speed will gonna be 
the differentiator.

true. it is consistently slow.

REALLY from what tale do you people get such a statements.


There is no tale, only a feature set:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfs#Features



And everything everyone writes is always true.


Did you read the foot notes ? the subsequent links ?

Regards,
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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar


English is not my native language, so i can make mistakes. ZFS is the way to 
go if you need consistency + speed on a NFS server/service.


Of course ZFS doesn't need fsck. Until it fails.


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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-07 Thread Marco Muskus

El 07/08/12 16:09, Wojciech Puchar escribió:


English is not my native language, so i can make mistakes. ZFS is the 
way to go if you need consistency + speed on a NFS server/service.


Of course ZFS doesn't need fsck. Until it fails.



Did you personally try ZFS ?
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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar

Hi Ashkan,

I think that XFS  JFS are more mature filesystems than ZFS, but the feature 
set of ZFS i ahead in the future. For a NFS server first I'll go with ZFS 
because the consistence in disk and speed will gonna be the differentiator.

true. it is consistently slow.

REALLY from what tale do you people get such a statements.




Look at L2ARC and ZIL to improve ZFS speed.


it's far better to just put manually heavily used things to SSD.
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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar

i have 16tb storage. 8x2tb sata raided.
i want to share it on network via nfs.
which file system is better for it?
thank you

badly imprecise question. you may share any filesystem.

Not sure what you want to achieve. No explanation of raided - this means 
nothing without precise description.


If you ask what i do commonly then i would do 8 gmirror-based RAID1 
volumes, and standard UFS filesystem on each with softupdates (or 
softupdates+journal).


And move as much as possible software directly to machine. Never create 
another level of indirection (like NFS) when not needed.


if you really HAVE to use NFS heavily i strongly recommend using unfsd 
from ports and patch if to AVOID constant fsync, and make sure UPS is 
installed.


NFS protocol is terrible by design (not by implementation) resulting in 
all writes being done synchronously.



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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 03:46:53PM -0500, Marco Muskus wrote:
 Hi Ashkan,
 
 I think that XFS  JFS are more mature filesystems than ZFS, but the
 feature set of ZFS i ahead in the future. For a NFS server first
 I'll go with ZFS because the consistence in disk and speed will
 gonna be the differentiator.

The idea that ZFS is faster than XFS is certainly a new one for me.  Do
you have some benchmarks for that?

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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar

I think that XFS  JFS are more mature filesystems than ZFS, but the
feature set of ZFS i ahead in the future. For a NFS server first
I'll go with ZFS because the consistence in disk and speed will
gonna be the differentiator.


The idea that ZFS is faster than XFS is certainly a new one for me.  Do


is ZFS supposed to be faster at all?

really - stick with FreeBSD UFS. it is really best.
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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-05 Thread Marco Muskus

El 05/08/12 06:22, Wojciech Puchar escribió:

Hi Ashkan,

I think that XFS  JFS are more mature filesystems than ZFS, but the 
feature set of ZFS i ahead in the future. For a NFS server first I'll 
go with ZFS because the consistence in disk and speed will gonna be 
the differentiator.

true. it is consistently slow.

REALLY from what tale do you people get such a statements.


There is no tale, only a feature set:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfs#Features






Look at L2ARC and ZIL to improve ZFS speed.


it's far better to just put manually heavily used things to SSD.



Yes ! That's what actually ZFS do with SSD put the most used elements on it.
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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-05 Thread Marco Muskus

El 05/08/12 13:03, Wojciech Puchar escribió:

I think that XFS  JFS are more mature filesystems than ZFS, but the
feature set of ZFS i ahead in the future. For a NFS server first
I'll go with ZFS because the consistence in disk and speed will
gonna be the differentiator.


The idea that ZFS is faster than XFS is certainly a new one for me.  Do


is ZFS supposed to be faster at all?

really - stick with FreeBSD UFS. it is really best.


Yes UFS is very good, but very hight IO ZFS is fastest if you use 
L2ARC/ZIL on SSD.


There is no doubt in the benefits of SSD on the fileservers (SMB, NFS,etc.)


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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar

really - stick with FreeBSD UFS. it is really best.


Yes UFS is very good, but very hight IO ZFS is fastest if you use L2ARC/ZIL 
on SSD.

if...

better just move heavy used things on SSD and rest on HDD. really it's 
fastest.



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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
with ZFS because the consistence in disk and speed will gonna be the 
differentiator.

true. it is consistently slow.

REALLY from what tale do you people get such a statements.


There is no tale, only a feature set:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfs#Features



And everything everyone writes is always true.
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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-05 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)

  I think that XFS  JFS are more mature filesystems than ZFS

This is not up for discussion.

 but the feature set of ZFS i ahead in the future. 

Too many iPads, iPhones, etc?

 For a NFS server first I'll go with ZFS because the consistence in disk

If not spelling, or grammar...

 and speed will gonna be the differentiator.

A high-school education may well have been the differentiator, but that's
not important right now. Journaling filesystems are not known for speed.
EXT2 will probably outperform ZFS as far as NFS servers go.

--
Speed Will Gonna
Be The Differentiator

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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-05 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of August 5, 2012 10:29:16 AM -0600, Chad Perrin is alleged to have 
said:



I think that XFS  JFS are more mature filesystems than ZFS, but the
feature set of ZFS i ahead in the future. For a NFS server first
I'll go with ZFS because the consistence in disk and speed will
gonna be the differentiator.


The idea that ZFS is faster than XFS is certainly a new one for me.  Do
you have some benchmarks for that?


--As for the rest, it is mine.

Particularly in this use-case: From my reading ZFS has a performance hit 
when used as a base filesystem for NFS.  (Largely because it insists on 
*actually following* the NFS spec, and not taking some shortcuts that are 
common elsewhere...)  Not that I have tested that, even on my NFS server. 
(Which runs ZFS - there are other excellent reasons to use it, and speed 
isn't a major concern for that particular box.)


Daniel T. Staal

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compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-04 Thread ashkab rahmani
hello
i have 16tb storage. 8x2tb sata raided.
i want to share it on network via nfs.
which file system is better for it?
thank you
———
Ashkan R
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Re: compare zfs xfs and jfs o

2012-08-04 Thread Marco Muskus

Hi Ashkan,

I think that XFS  JFS are more mature filesystems than ZFS, but the 
feature set of ZFS i ahead in the future. For a NFS server first I'll go 
with ZFS because the consistence in disk and speed will gonna be the 
differentiator.


Look at L2ARC and ZIL to improve ZFS speed.


Regards,


El 04/08/12 09:01, ashkab rahmani escribió:

hello
i have 16tb storage. 8x2tb sata raided.
i want to share it on network via nfs.
which file system is better for it?
thank you
———
Ashkan R
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