Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Walter Parker wrote: > Are the FreeBSD 10.2 instructions ( > https://www.netgate.com/docs/platforms/rcc-dff-2220/freebsd.html) still > valid for 11.1? > > >- Connect the console cable (I have that setup) >- Boot from from a memstick

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Vick Khera wrote: > On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Zandr Milewski > wrote: > > > As someone who has spent easily 100 hours troubleshooting, rebuilding, > and > > restoring UFS based Netgate boxes that have to function in

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Zandr Milewski wrote: > As someone who has spent easily 100 hours troubleshooting, rebuilding, and > restoring UFS based Netgate boxes that have to function in environments > with less-that-datacenter grade power availability, I'll take

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

As someone who has spent easily 100 hours troubleshooting, rebuilding, and restoring UFS based Netgate boxes that have to function in environments with less-that-datacenter grade power availability, I'll take "potential corruption in corner cases" over "1 in 4 chance it won't come back from a

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 8:18 PM, Walter Parker wrote: > don't use ECC. Can anyone show why my solution should switch file systems > (given that I'm keeping my existing hardware) without changing the subject? > I've read many of the scare stories from FreeNAS and they all seem

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Peder Rovelstad wrote: > > That is an urban legend. One of original developers of ZFS was > > interviewed > > OK, then. Not my data. Best of luck. > > I've had other ZFS servers without ECC that have run successfully for several years. I

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

> That is an urban legend. One of original developers of ZFS was > interviewed OK, then. Not my data. Best of luck. ___ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 2:04 PM, Walter Parker wrote: > without ECC. If there is a time bomb, then it exists for all file systems > running on computers without ECC. As this one of multiple backups for the > system, the risks are acceptable. > > If you have an actual failure

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

; To: 'pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List' <list@lists.pfsense.org> > Subject: Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2 > > Oh, for certain. Lz4 compression is certainly stressful enough (too much > actually) for as low power a device as a SG-2220. > > Only posting to fan the

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

2018 8:57 AM To: pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List <list@lists.pfsense.org> Subject: Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2 On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 6:51 PM, Peder Rovelstad <provels...@comcast.net> wrote: > Here's a ZFS tuning guide if you have not seen. > https://wiki.fr

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

:57 AM To: pfSense Support and Discussion Mailing List <list@lists.pfsense.org> Subject: Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2 On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 6:51 PM, Peder Rovelstad <provels...@comcast.net> wrote: > Here's a ZFS tuning guide if you have not seen. > https://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuning

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 6:51 PM, Peder Rovelstad wrote: > Here's a ZFS tuning guide if you have not seen. > https://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide > > But only goes to v9. > You 100% do not want nor need to turn on de-dupe. Especially on a boot volume of pfSense.

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

fSense] ZFS on 2.4.2 On Mar 6, 2018, at 12:39 PM, Walter Parker < <mailto:walt...@gmail.com> walt...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 6:38 PM, Curtis Maurand < <mailto:cmaur...@xyonet.com> cmaur...@xyonet.com> wrote: > >> ZFS is a memory hog.

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

On Mar 6, 2018, at 12:39 PM, Walter Parker wrote: > On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 6:38 PM, Curtis Maurand wrote: > >> ZFS is a memory hog. you need 1 GB of RAM for each TB of disk. > > > Curtis, can you provide some more details? I have been testing this

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 6:38 PM, Curtis Maurand wrote: > ZFS is a memory hog. you need 1 GB of RAM for each TB of disk. Curtis, can you provide some more details? I have been testing this for the last couple of weeks and ZFS doesn't require 1G for each TB to function

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

ZFS is a memory hog.   you need 1 GB of RAM for each TB of disk. On 3/1/2018 1:49 AM, Walter Parker wrote: Forgot to CC the list. On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:13 PM, Walter Parker wrote: Thank you for the backup script. By my calculations, 2G should be enough. If I limit

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

Here's my simple backup script function. Just stick it into a /bin/sh script (should work in bash too) and call it once per pfSense instance. I've been using this for years to backup my production firewalls. pfsense_config() { local FWNAME FWURL FWPASS CSRF CSRF2 COOKIEFILE PFDATE

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

Forgot to CC the list. On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:13 PM, Walter Parker wrote: > Thank you for the backup script. > > By my calculations, 2G should be enough. If I limit the ARC cache to 1G, > that leaves 1G for applications & kernel memory. As I'm not serving the 6TB > drive

Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

You don't need to export the pool on shutdown. Even an unclean shutdown should survive automatically on the reboot. I can't think of a reason ZFS would fail like you describe. On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Walter Parker wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2.4.2 installed on an

[pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2

Hi, I have 2.4.2 installed on an SG-2220 from Netgate [nice box]. I just bought a 6TB powered USB drive from Costco and it works great (the drive has its own power supply and a USB hub). I want to use it take ZFS backups from my home server. I edited /boot/loader.conf.local and