Re: New desktop configuration

2011-10-13 Thread yudi v
> > For the desktop a mixed setup can make sense, since there is no need to > store movie or music files onto an SSD usually. SSD excel at random I/O > workloads with lots of small files. > > Seagate - possibly others - manufactures a harddisk with SSD cache. This > might be an alternative for lapt

Re: New desktop configuration

2011-10-13 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2011 schrieb Dan Ritter: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 06:06:38PM +1000, yudi v wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Just a quick question about RAID and linux file systems. I am > > building a new desktop and wondering what the best configuration to > > get redundancy and speed. > >

Re: New desktop configuration

2011-10-13 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 06:06:38PM +1000, yudi v wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a quick question about RAID and linux file systems. I am building a new > desktop and wondering what the best configuration to get redundancy and > speed. > Some thing like ZFS RAID1 or RAIDz. > > I am not going with SSDs

Re: New desktop configuration

2011-10-13 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2011 schrieb yudi v: > Hi all, [...] > from what I understand Btrfs is the closest to ZFS and this is not > production ready yet. Also it does not offer the advanced features of > ZFS like RAID, deduplication. BTRFS supports RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10. It is still mark

Re: New desktop configuration

2011-10-13 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 10/13/2011 12:27 PM, yudi v wrote: Can you please reference your source about ZFS being slow on FreeBSD - I was seriously considering this option. You can look at FreeBSD forums. http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=26254&highlight=zfs -- Kind regards, Yudi Best regards Georgi

Re: New desktop configuration

2011-10-13 Thread yudi v
Software RAID 1 with ext3(4) is a good choice. Yes thats an option but ext4 is severely lacking in comparison to ZFS. > >> As far as I know ZFS is not available in Linux kernel, on other hand I've > read that ZFS is slower than UFS on FreeBSD which is slower than ext3 on > Linux. > > I am awar

Re: New desktop configuration

2011-10-13 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 10/13/2011 11:06 AM, yudi v wrote: Hi all, Just a quick question about RAID and linux file systems. I am building a new desktop and wondering what the best configuration to get redundancy and speed. Some thing like ZFS RAID1 or RAIDz. Software RAID 1 with ext3(4) is a good choice. from

New desktop configuration

2011-10-13 Thread yudi v
Hi all, Just a quick question about RAID and linux file systems. I am building a new desktop and wondering what the best configuration to get redundancy and speed. Some thing like ZFS RAID1 or RAIDz. I am not going with SSDs as they are beyond my budget. I believe I can get the required performan