Hi All, This is my first post to this mailing list. So please don't mind me if I speak in a different tone!
I have been using Linux and FreeBSD for some time now. Solaris seems to be a very good option currently and for the future too. I just installed Solaris a few days back. I must admit that the learning curve with migration from Linux to Solaris is quite higher or steeper compared to migrating from Linux to FreeBSD. However, I finally managed to install Solaris on one of my test machines. 18:50:29 root at solaris:~$ uname -a SunOS solaris 5.10 Generic_118855-33 i86pc i386 i86pc This Solaris box will be deployed for a Squid proxy box in the near future. ZFS definitely seems to the the File system of the future. Though I hardly understand it, I am very much interested in it and I wanted some feedbacks about ZFS from this list. I created a ZFS file system like the following with /mypool/cache being the partition for the Squid cache: 18:51:27 root at solaris:~$ zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT mypool 478M 31.0G 10.0M /mypool mypool/cache 230M 9.78G 230M /mypool/cache mypool/home 226M 31.0G 226M /export/home Note: I only have a few days of experience on Solaris and I might have made some mistakes with the above ZFS partitions! Now since a proxy cache will probably be storing a couple of million objects on disk (most of them small objects), I wanted to know what it's impact will be on Squid? Basically, I want to know if somebody here on this list is using a ZFS file system for a proxy cache and what will be it's performance? Will it improve and degrade Squid's performance? Or better still, is there any kind of benchmark tools for ZFS performance? Maybe this question should go to the Squid mailing list which I will post but since I am very new to Solaris, I wanted to start with this list? Any suggestions or feedbacks will highly be appreciated. By the way, Solaris Rocks! Thanking you... -- With best regards and good wishes, Yours sincerely, Tek Bahadur Limbu System Administrator (TAG/TDG Group) Jwl Systems Department Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd. Jawalakhel, Nepal http://www.wlink.com.np http://teklimbu.wordpress.com
