ZFS benchmark I have a 64-bit box with a ZFS raidx2 array. It now has 4GB of RAM and I recently purchased another 4GB. I thought I might do some benchmarks on it before and after I install the additional RAM. I will be using the benchmarks/bonnie++ port. The intial tests In this section I …
ZFS: promote – for getting rid of snapshots, but not the data When I built the Kraken ZFS file server, I used a snapshot to copy the data over. Those snapshots are still hanging around. I’d like to get rid of them. I can do that with zfs promote. This article documents how I did …
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ZFS: upgrade Yesterday I upgraded my file server to the latest version of FreeBSD (8.1-STABLE #0: Sat Sep 18 23:43:48 EDT 2010) by building world and installing. My goal was to get a recently MFC’d feature related to scrubbing of pools. I tried to find the original commit message but failed. But Revision 211800 seems …
ZFS: Resizing your zpool I’m about to rebuild my ZFS array (which I documented in my other diary). The array has been running for a while, but I recently learned some new facts about ZFS which spurred me on to rebuilding my array with future-proofing in mind. This is my plan for tonight. As I …
ZFS: do not give it all your HDD I’m about to rebuild my ZFS array (which I documented in my other diary). The array has been running for a while, but I recently learned some new facts about ZFS which spurred me on to rebuilding my array with future-proofing in mind. This is my plan …