Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:32:03
Message-Id: 5238596f.y1js13mAkbit1d+c%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS by Grant
1 Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
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3 > >> Performance doesn't seem to be one of ZFS's strong points. Is it
4 > >> considered suitable for a high-performance server?
5 > >
6 > > ZFS is one of the fastest FS I am aware of (if not the fastest).
7 > > You need a sufficient amount of RAM to make the ARC useful.
8 >
9 > How much RAM is that?
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11 How much do you have?
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13 File servers usually have at least 20 GB but 64+ is usual...
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15 Jörg
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