I'm building a home NAS for storage and hosting. The more I learn about ZFS, the more I think I've proverbially shot myself in the foot on my initial partitioning scheme.
My drives -
My initial plan was to use the SSD for all of the main mount points on UFS (boot, /, /usr, /var, etc.) and then just mount WD Red as a ZFS pool, and grow it as I acquire more of the WD Reds down the road. I have read quite a few threads and can't find anybody doing this so I'm thinking that it probably will not use ZFS' memory features well and I do want the fastest and best overall setup regardless if I have to reformat and start over.
It looks like the sector size of the Red drive is 512 with a stripe size of 4096. Does anybody have any suggestions for my situation? I'm now leaning towards maybe putting some of the partitions on the SSD (boot, swap, L2ARC cache), and putting the rest on the ZFS pool.
Please let me know if I can provide any more detail, I'd appreciate any suggestions on the partition scheme between the two drives as well as FS types (UFS vs. ZFS for each partition). Good partition offsets for my situation would be very helpful to know as well.
Thanks in advance!
My drives -
- Samsung 840 120GB SSD
- WD Caviar Red 3TB (eventually will expand to 5 of these)
My initial plan was to use the SSD for all of the main mount points on UFS (boot, /, /usr, /var, etc.) and then just mount WD Red as a ZFS pool, and grow it as I acquire more of the WD Reds down the road. I have read quite a few threads and can't find anybody doing this so I'm thinking that it probably will not use ZFS' memory features well and I do want the fastest and best overall setup regardless if I have to reformat and start over.
It looks like the sector size of the Red drive is 512 with a stripe size of 4096. Does anybody have any suggestions for my situation? I'm now leaning towards maybe putting some of the partitions on the SSD (boot, swap, L2ARC cache), and putting the rest on the ZFS pool.
Please let me know if I can provide any more detail, I'd appreciate any suggestions on the partition scheme between the two drives as well as FS types (UFS vs. ZFS for each partition). Good partition offsets for my situation would be very helpful to know as well.
Thanks in advance!