On Friday 2016-12-09 14:55:49 Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 12/09/2016 02:15 PM, Josip Deanovic wrote: > > I doubt that there are many cases where data is coming at a rate that > > would justify spooling in case of file storage (I don't think I have > > ever stumbled upon such case). I would of course like to hear > > different > > experiences on the matter if there are any. > > Consider interleaving and running jobs in parallel. And current prices > on SSDs. > > I've two setups using SSD spools and 50GB file volumes on "commodity" > SATA drives; on one storage is a vchanger, on the other: a big zfs pool. > In both cases backup runs as fast as clients can push bits over the > wire (all running in parallel) and I don't need to care how slow > despooling to spinning rust might be. > > With ZFS you'd want the SSD anyway for write caching (ZIL) so it's only > really a matter of buying slightly larger ones to hold the spool as > well.
Good point. When did you start to use SSD drives for spooling in your setups? I believe the SSD still suffer from faster wear effect when compared to the classic rotational disks although they have improved on that regard in last few years. -- Josip Deanovic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
