Re: ZFS vs. UFS - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Laszlo Nagy
Subject Re: ZFS vs. UFS
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Msg-id 500EEB05.6030005@shopzeus.com
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In response to Re: ZFS vs. UFS  (Torsten Zuehlsdorff <foo@meisterderspiele.de>)
Responses Re: ZFS vs. UFS  (Torsten Zuehlsdorff <foo@meisterderspiele.de>)
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> On 24.07.2012 14:51, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
>
>>   * UFS is not journaled.
>
> There is journal support for UFS as far as i know. Please have a look
> at the gjournal manpage.
Yes, but gjournal works for disk devices. I would have rely on the hw
card for RAID. When the card goes wrong I won't be able to access my data.

I could also buy an identical RAID card. In fact I could buy a complete
backup server. But right now I don't have the money for that. So I would
like to use a solution that allows me to recover from a failure even if
the RAID card goes wrong.

It might also be possible to combine gmirror + gjournal, but that is not
good enough. Performance and stability of a simple gmirror with two
disks is much worse then a raidz array with 10 disks (and hot spare), or
even a raid 1+0 (and hot spare) that is supported by the hw RAID card.

So I would like to stick with UFS+hw card support (and then I need to
buy an identical RAID card if I can), or ZFS.



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