Good luck!
FYI, my mail spools are on ZFS filesystems under Solaris on
UltraSPARC. It is lightning fast with 100+ dovecot imap processes
pounding away. I've not yet enabled compression and done the
copy/recopy dance, though.
-Dave
On 08/19/2011 02:57 PM, Felipe Scarel wrote:
I was not aware of that... I went with FUSE to test the deduplication
feature of ZFS. I'll check out this link you've provided, many thanks Dave.
:)
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 15:48, Dave McGuire<mcgu...@neurotica.com> wrote:
On 08/19/2011 02:45 PM, Felipe Scarel wrote:
I'm testing out ZFS-fuse on my new install (talked about it on the other
thread), no issues so far. The builtin deduplication and compression sure
do
help a lot, roughly 30% less storage space required so far.
They don't advertise it as exactly "production" quality, but I'm willing
to
try it out, we're doing regular backups. The mail system hasn't gone live
yet though, so I'm a bit uneasy on the performance side of things under
heavy load.
You are aware that there's a real in-kernel ZFS implementation under Linux
now, right? See http://zfsonlinux.org/. I've done some very basic
testing with it, and so far, it works. Going through FUSE is slower than
pissing tar; this implementation won't have that problem.
FUSE is useful for many things. Performance-sensitive filesystems on
production servers is oh-so-NOT one of them. ;)
-Dave
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Port Charlotte, FL
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Port Charlotte, FL
