Hi guys,
I want to have your opinion on my configuration. I have a server which runs Linux now and it runs EXT4 on root with XFS for the large storage. I don't like it though, it's slow and it doesn't utilize the full potential of this machine. It has a 10GbE internet connection and right now I get around ~180 MB/s download speeds.
So, I want to speed things up and switch to FreeBSD, and go with ZFS for my slow storage SATA drives. I already added SSD drives to use for the OS and as L2ARC cache.
First my server configuration:
So I had the following partitions in mind:
I know WD GREEN has that 4K bug, would I be working around this by creating my partitions like this?
Thanks in advance!
I want to have your opinion on my configuration. I have a server which runs Linux now and it runs EXT4 on root with XFS for the large storage. I don't like it though, it's slow and it doesn't utilize the full potential of this machine. It has a 10GbE internet connection and right now I get around ~180 MB/s download speeds.
So, I want to speed things up and switch to FreeBSD, and go with ZFS for my slow storage SATA drives. I already added SSD drives to use for the OS and as L2ARC cache.
First my server configuration:
- Dual Xeon E5-2620v2 (2x6-core)
- 128 GB RAM
- 10 x 4 TB SATA WD GREEN (I know this probably sucks).
- 2x 256 GB Plextor M6e PCIe SSD drives.
So I had the following partitions in mind:
- FreeBSD 9.3 OS - UFS 50 GB RAID1 on SSD (Any reason to go with 10 BTW?)
- Data volume - 10 x 4 TB RAIDZ2.
- L2ARC 400 GB SSD RAID0
I know WD GREEN has that 4K bug, would I be working around this by creating my partitions like this?
gpart create -s gpt ada0
gpart add -a 4k -t freebsd-zfs -l disk0 ada0
gnop create -S 4096 /dev/gpt/disk0
Thanks in advance!