I am pretty sure that adding more disks wouldn't solve anything in this case, only either using a faster CPU or a faster crypto system. When you are capable of 70 MB/s reads on a single unecrypted disk, but only 24 MB/s reads off the same disk while encrypted, your disk speed isn't the problem.
- Dan Naumov On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Ronald Klop <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 29 May 2009 13:34:57 +0200, Dan Naumov <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Now that I have evaluated the numbers and my needs a bit, I am really >> confused about what appropriate course of action for me would be. >> >> 1) Use ZFS without GELI and hope that zfs-crypto get implemented in >> Solaris and ported to FreeBSD "soon" and that when it does, it won't >> come with such a dramatic performance decrease as GELI/ZFS seems to >> result in. >> 2) Go ahead with the original plan of using GELI/ZFS and grind my >> teeth at the 24 MB/s read speed off a single disk. > > 3) Add extra disks. It will speed up reading. One disk extra will about > double the read speed. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
