Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-03 Thread Albert Shih
Le 02/12/2008 à 22:58:28+0100, Wojciech Puchar a écrit To come back to FreeBSD, I'm using FreeBSD since 10 years, UFS is very slow, and when UFS2 is release I'm very happy to switch to UFS2. simply turn on softupdates and turn off atime Yes I known that. But event that UFS2 UFS1

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
What about DragonFlyBSD's new HAMMER FS? I hear it has similar capabilities as ZFS without the overhead. Though, strangely, I haven't really heard anyone discuss it even though it was released some months ago. it's maybe pre-pre-prerelease. it's not finished yet.

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Ivan Voras
2008/12/2 Nathan Lay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What about DragonFlyBSD's new HAMMER FS? I hear it has similar capabilities as ZFS without the overhead. Though, strangely, I haven't really heard anyone discuss it even though it was released some months ago. Well, that's because it doesn't :)

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Dan
Wojciech Puchar([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.12.02 11:09:53 +0100: What about DragonFlyBSD's new HAMMER FS? I hear it has similar capabilities as ZFS without the overhead. Though, strangely, I haven't really heard anyone discuss it even though it was released some months ago. it's maybe

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It's already usable on DragonFly. DragonFLY itself is stable, but only supports one CPUIt probably will never be ported to FreeBSD due to API differences. time to wait and see if they will really make dragonfly faster than FreeBSD (it's their goal)...

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: It's already usable on DragonFly. DragonFLY itself is stable, but only supports one CPUIt probably will never be ported to FreeBSD due to API differences. time to wait and see if they will really make dragonfly faster than FreeBSD (it's their goal)...

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Ivan Voras
Wojciech Puchar wrote: What about DragonFlyBSD's new HAMMER FS? I hear it has similar capabilities as ZFS without the overhead. Though, strangely, I haven't really heard anyone discuss it even though it was released some months ago. it's maybe pre-pre-prerelease. it's not finished

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I don't think HAMMER intends to implement a significant portion of ZFS's it intends to implement what's needed. anyway - lets wait when it will be really finished ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
time to wait and see if they will really make dragonfly faster than FreeBSD (it's their goal)... http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/dfly.html Good luck to them, they need it :) indeed:) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Dan
Ivan Voras([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.12.02 20:00:46 +0100: Wojciech Puchar wrote: It's already usable on DragonFly. DragonFLY itself is stable, but only supports one CPUIt probably will never be ported to FreeBSD due to API differences. time to wait and see if they will really make

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
That's a stupid benchmark. DragonFly doesn't have SMP support yet. my benchmark is to start it install programs i use commonly and compare it to other system. on single-core machine i tested FreeBSD is faster. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Peter Giessel
time to wait and see if they will really make dragonfly faster than FreeBSD (it's their goal)... http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/dfly.html Good luck to them, they need it :) That's a stupid benchmark. DragonFly doesn't have SMP support yet. So? Look at just the UP scores

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Albert Shih
Le 01/12/2008 à 09:59:15-0600, Kirk Strauser a écrit I have ZFS on my 7.1-PRERELEASE system, and while it does some spiffy things, in general I'm a bit underwhelmed. PROS: Adding new filesystems on a whim is really nice. It has a lot of really cool other features that I will

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
performance and 1.8 times higher than freebsd 4 UP performance. Please explain how DragonFly's lack of SMP affects the UP performance? doesn't affect of course. yes dragonflybsd is slower. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
To come back to FreeBSD, I'm using FreeBSD since 10 years, UFS is very slow, and when UFS2 is release I'm very happy to switch to UFS2. simply turn on softupdates and turn off atime ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Dan
Wojciech Puchar([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.12.02 22:14:55 +0100: That's a stupid benchmark. DragonFly doesn't have SMP support yet. my benchmark is to start it install programs i use commonly and compare it to other system. on single-core machine i tested FreeBSD is faster. Good things come

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-02 Thread Dan
Peter Giessel([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.12.02 12:22:09 -0900: Please explain how DragonFly's lack of SMP affects the UP performance? Also, from an end user perspective, you can hardly get a computer these days that only has one core. SMP performance is very relevant from that perspective. So

Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
I have ZFS on my 7.1-PRERELEASE system, and while it does some spiffy things, in general I'm a bit underwhelmed. PROS: Adding new filesystems on a whim is really nice. It has a lot of really cool other features that I will probably never need. CONS: I have nearly 3GB of wired RAM, but

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have ZFS on my 7.1-PRERELEASE system, and while it does some spiffy things, in general I'm a bit underwhelmed. UFS is excellent. your problem is that you like to have lots of filesystems. why don't just make one or one per disk? i have one per disk/mirror configuration everywhere except

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 01 December 2008 11:49:46 Wojciech Puchar wrote: UFS is excellent. your problem is that you like to have lots of filesystems. why don't just make one or one per disk? For all the usual reasons: faster fsck, ability to set attributes on each filesystem (noexec, noatime, ro), a

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Valentin Bud
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have ZFS on my 7.1-PRERELEASE system, and while it does some spiffy things, in general I'm a bit underwhelmed. PROS: Adding new filesystems on a whim is really nice. yes it is. It has a lot of really cool other

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Monday 01 December 2008 13:24:48 Valentin Bud wrote: On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It has a lot of really cool other features that I will probably never need. then you don't need ZFS. usually you choose a technology because you need it. if you

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Kirk Strauser wrote: At this point, I'm almost ready to go back to good ol' UFS2, but I'd hate to give up that easy addition of new filesystems. I *could* have a single 700GB root FS but that just doesn't seem right. Are there any good, tested GEOM- based ways of getting that

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
UFS is excellent. your problem is that you like to have lots of filesystems. why don't just make one or one per disk? For all the usual reasons: faster fsck, ability to set attributes on each filesystem (noexec, noatime, ro), a runaway process writing to /tmp won't cause problems in /var,

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 22:26:04 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it simply wastes RAM and CPU power. same thing takes 10-20 times more CPU that with UFS ZFS does things that UFS is not capable of. These (bloathware) things cost memory indeed. But that memory is certainly not

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Valentin Bud
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 December 2008 11:49:46 Wojciech Puchar wrote: UFS is excellent. your problem is that you like to have lots of filesystems. why don't just make one or one per disk? For all the usual reasons: faster fsck,

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread Nathan Lay
Ivan Voras wrote: Kirk Strauser wrote: At this point, I'm almost ready to go back to good ol' UFS2, but I'd hate to give up that easy addition of new filesystems. I *could* have a single 700GB root FS but that just doesn't seem right. Are there any good, tested GEOM- based ways of