Quoting Dan Naumov <dan.nau...@gmail.com> (from Mon, 15 Feb 2010
01:10:49 +0200):
Get a dock for holding 2 x 2,5" disks in a single 5,25" slot and put
it at the top, in the only 5,25" bay of the case. Now add an
additional PCI-E SATA controller card, like the often mentioned PCIE
SIL3124. Now you have 2 x 2,5" disk slots and 8 x 3,5" disk slots,
with 6 native SATA ports on the motherboard and more ports on the
controller card. Now get 2 x 80gb Intel SSDs and put them into the
dock. Now partition each of them in the following fashion:
1: swap: 4-5gb
2: freebsd-zfs: ~10-15gb for root filesystem
3: freebsd-zfs: rest of the disk: dedicated L2ARC vdev
If you already have 2 SSDs I suggest to make 4 partitions. The
additional one for the ZIL (decide yourself what you want to speed up
"more" and size the L2ARC and ZIL partitions accordingly...). This
should speed up write operations. The ZIL one should be zfs mirrored,
because the ZIL is more sensitive to disk failures than the L2ARC:
zpool add <pool> log mirror <SSD1pX> <SSD2pX>
GMirror your SSD swap partitions.
Make a ZFS mirror pool out of your SSD root filesystem partitions
Build your big ZFS pool however you like out of the mechanical disks
you have.
Add the 2 x ~60gb partitions as dedicated independant L2ARC devices
for your SATA disk ZFS pool.
BTW, the cheap way of doing something like this is to add a USB memory
stick as L2ARC:
http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2010/02/10/making-zfs-faster/
This will not give you the speed boost of a real SSD attached via
SATA, but for the price (maybe you even got the memory stick for free
somewhere) you can not get something better.
Bye,
Alexander.
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