Hello,
I am interested to buy a new computer, I have a single HDD right now, but I'm studying the possibility to have a mirror in my next one. Apparently it is possible to do it with GEOM or with ZFS, and I would like to know the advantages and disavantages of both. In my eyes UFS2 with journaled soft-updates is super reliable and resilient, while ZFS is announced as "experimental" in FreeBSD 10 installation. On the other hand, ZFS allows for snapshots, and it's easy to set up a mirror, as it is included in the OS setup. So GEOM may seems more reliable and ZFS seems to have more features and easier to set up. As the new computer, if I make the jump, will have 8GB of memory, ZFS memory usage would not be an issue. However, I feel more familiar with UFS than with ZFS that I don't know at all. Also I was thinking about adding encryption, but that may complicate things a bit. I have to read again the GEOM part of "Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition" that I do not have at hand where I am currently, unfortunately. I have just finished the draft of "FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials" where Michael W.Lucas is writing that ZFS will be covered in "FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS" which I am eagerly awaiting
What are you using or would use, and why ?
Guillaume
I am interested to buy a new computer, I have a single HDD right now, but I'm studying the possibility to have a mirror in my next one. Apparently it is possible to do it with GEOM or with ZFS, and I would like to know the advantages and disavantages of both. In my eyes UFS2 with journaled soft-updates is super reliable and resilient, while ZFS is announced as "experimental" in FreeBSD 10 installation. On the other hand, ZFS allows for snapshots, and it's easy to set up a mirror, as it is included in the OS setup. So GEOM may seems more reliable and ZFS seems to have more features and easier to set up. As the new computer, if I make the jump, will have 8GB of memory, ZFS memory usage would not be an issue. However, I feel more familiar with UFS than with ZFS that I don't know at all. Also I was thinking about adding encryption, but that may complicate things a bit. I have to read again the GEOM part of "Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition" that I do not have at hand where I am currently, unfortunately. I have just finished the draft of "FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials" where Michael W.Lucas is writing that ZFS will be covered in "FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS" which I am eagerly awaiting
What are you using or would use, and why ?
Guillaume