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On Tuesday 25 November 2008 23:43:34 Joerg Schilling wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Personally, I'm very interested in seeing where Intel go with their new |
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> > SSDs. |
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> Two weeks ago, I did some tests with a SSD (ZFS and UFS) and it is really |
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> promising. |
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That's what Linux said on his blog too. They just worked and worked well and |
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impressed him technically with no silly rotating media characteristics |
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carried over to SSD. Which is a refreshing change indeed |
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> They still have "seek times" but much smaller than rotating media. |
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> ZFS behaves (as expected) much better on SSD than UFS. |
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> ZFS even supports (or will soon support) to add separate SSDs as write |
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> cache and as meta data cache. |
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I think I need to investigate this deeper and do a write-up for work. I have a |
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FreeBSD-7 deployment system (nothing for OpenSolaris) so I'll use that. Any |
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comment on ZFS performace/stability on FreeBSD? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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