Hi all, first post and looking for some advice.
I am building a FreeBSD home workstation and would like some opinions on how to configure my storage devices to best suit my daily workload. Box is an AMD Phenom II 955 quad core with 4 GB ram, a 90 GB SSD, a 250 GB SATA and a 300 GB SATA.
I am a freelance Django developer so my storage needs are a redundant /home and storage space for backups and a few virtualbox os's for testing. I typically have around 4-6 GB of data in my workspace folder at any one time but a lot of small files in my virtualenv directory (typically 10-15 python/django/mysql/postgresql installations).
I am trying to decide on the following storage configurations:
1. UFS with SSD sliced to 512 K /boot 30 GB / and 50 GB /home and a UFS mirror of the two SATA drives for snapshot storage and virtualbox data.
2. UFS / and /boot on the SSD with a 50gb L2ARC and /home on a ZFS mirror of the 2 sata drives.
My concerns are snapshot space and speed with option 1 using UFS, and using an L2ARC with option 2, would I see much of a cache hit with ZFS or would I just be wasting 50 GB of SSD space.
Option 3. Your suggestion?
I am building a FreeBSD home workstation and would like some opinions on how to configure my storage devices to best suit my daily workload. Box is an AMD Phenom II 955 quad core with 4 GB ram, a 90 GB SSD, a 250 GB SATA and a 300 GB SATA.
I am a freelance Django developer so my storage needs are a redundant /home and storage space for backups and a few virtualbox os's for testing. I typically have around 4-6 GB of data in my workspace folder at any one time but a lot of small files in my virtualenv directory (typically 10-15 python/django/mysql/postgresql installations).
I am trying to decide on the following storage configurations:
1. UFS with SSD sliced to 512 K /boot 30 GB / and 50 GB /home and a UFS mirror of the two SATA drives for snapshot storage and virtualbox data.
2. UFS / and /boot on the SSD with a 50gb L2ARC and /home on a ZFS mirror of the 2 sata drives.
My concerns are snapshot space and speed with option 1 using UFS, and using an L2ARC with option 2, would I see much of a cache hit with ZFS or would I just be wasting 50 GB of SSD space.
Option 3. Your suggestion?