Hi all,
I am working on my ZFS pool layout with 8 disks and I am thinking about 2 striped vdevs containing 4 disks with RAIDZ. For me speed is important, so I doubt about the RAIDZ and maybe I switch to 4 striped vdevs with 2 mirrored disks.
To further improve speed, I did read about read/write cache and wondering if I can use my SSD Boot-disk for caching purposes. It is a 60GB disk and got plenty of space left after FreeBSD installation I guess.
I know ZFS does allow to use files as block-device. Is it possible/smart to use my SSD Boot-disk also as read or write cache for a ZFS pool?
I am working on my ZFS pool layout with 8 disks and I am thinking about 2 striped vdevs containing 4 disks with RAIDZ. For me speed is important, so I doubt about the RAIDZ and maybe I switch to 4 striped vdevs with 2 mirrored disks.
To further improve speed, I did read about read/write cache and wondering if I can use my SSD Boot-disk for caching purposes. It is a 60GB disk and got plenty of space left after FreeBSD installation I guess.
I know ZFS does allow to use files as block-device. Is it possible/smart to use my SSD Boot-disk also as read or write cache for a ZFS pool?