fileserver questions
Hello All, I am building a fileserver to store ripped movies, cds, etc on, to be used also as a home media center connected to tv. i'm going to use 1TB drives and was wondering if i should stick with ufs, or migrate to zfs. i've read about the zfs many times on the freebsd wiki, and it seems like a good choice. looking for pros and cons of each. thanks, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fileserver questions
Hello All, I am building a fileserver to store ripped movies, cds, etc on, to be used also as a home media center connected to tv. i'm going to use 1TB drives and was wondering if i should stick with ufs, or migrate to zfs. i've read about the zfs many times on the freebsd wiki, and it seems like a good choice. looking for pros and cons of each. thanks, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Michael I personally would consider zfs on freeBSD as unstable/experimental on everything apart from AMD64's with loads of RAM to spare. I have tried tuning as per wiki on sparc64 and i386 compatible servers but still hit problems and erratic kernel hangs. My advise -- stick to UFS wrapped in goem goodness. /Craig This email has been handled by lerwick.hopto.org mail server and has been scanned by 3 virus killers and spamassassin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fileserver questions
Hello All, I am building a fileserver to store ripped movies, cds, etc on, to be used also as a home media center connected to tv. i'm going to use 1TB drives and UFS works perfect on my 6*500GB gstriped volume. RAID5 will be OK but for large files, for small files writes will be suboptimal (but not reads) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fileserver questions
I personally would consider zfs on freeBSD as unstable/experimental on everything apart from AMD64's with loads of RAM to spare. I have tried tuning for large files UFS offers near-raw performance. it can't be much better. it can be less efficient on concurrent operations because MAXBSIZE is 128KB on FreeBSD. i don't know why it's still that small! i changed #define MAXPHYS (128 * 1024) /* max raw I/O transfer size */ to #define MAXPHYS (1024 * 1024) /* max raw I/O transfer size */ on EVERY machine i own (except those having 128MB RAM) and it works fine, while there are huge difference. you WILL saturade gigabit ethernet port with just 2 gstriped drives and many concurrent users fetching files. make sure gstripe use huge stripes not small (like 256MB), to speed up multiple concurrent access instead of single linear read speed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
