From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3053F1381F3 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:52:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA8E4E0C27; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:52:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx-relay01-dus.antispameurope.com (mx-relay01-dus.antispameurope.com [94.100.134.201]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 746F7E0C13 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:52:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([195.37.77.164]) by mx-gate01-dus.antispameurope.com; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:52:40 +0200 Received: from DIRAC.fokus.fraunhofer.de (dirac.fokus.fraunhofer.de [10.147.9.201]) by pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de (8.14.4/8.14.2) with ESMTP id r8H9qdRe000179 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:52:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: from rigel (10.147.13.100) by DIRAC.fokus.fraunhofer.de (10.147.9.201) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.123.3; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:52:40 +0200 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 11:52:39 +0200 From: Joerg Schilling To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS Message-ID: <52382667.gv/H26XH5nHRnIHS%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: nail 11.22 3/20/05 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-KSE-Antivirus-Interceptor-Info: protection disabled X-cloud-security-sender:joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de X-cloud-security-recipient:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-cloud-security-Virusscan:CLEAN X-cloud-security-disclaimer: This E-Mail was scanned by E-Mailservice on mx-gate01-dus with 3A88720000C X-cloud-security-connect: pluto.fokus.fraunhofer.de[195.37.77.164], TLS=, IP=195.37.77.164 X-cloud-security:scantime:.1501 X-Archives-Salt: 387aa562-e8ae-43e6-a24b-6e6a4634d0b6 X-Archives-Hash: d7490e577589b2f5784470a9260f13a7 Grant wrote: > Performance doesn't seem to be one of ZFS's strong points. Is it > considered suitable for a high-performance server? ZFS is one of the fastest FS I am aware of (if not the fastest). You need a sufficient amount of RAM to make the ARC useful. The only problem I am aware with ZFS is the fact that if you ask it to grant consistency for a specific file at a specific time, you force it to become slow. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily