[Dovecot] Indexes to MLC-SSD

Stan Hoeppner stan at hardwarefreak.com
Fri Nov 4 04:16:09 EET 2011


On 11/3/2011 1:24 PM, Felipe Scarel wrote:
> Reasons to choose ZFS were snapshots, and mainly dedup and compression
> capabilities. I know, it's ironic since I'm not able to use them now due to
> severe performance issues with them (mostly dedup) turned on.
> 
> I do like the emphasis on data integrity and fast on-the-fly
> configurability of ZFS to an extent, but I wouldn't recommend it highly for
> new users, especially for production. It works (in fact it's working right
> now), but has its fair share of troubles.
> 
> We've started implementations to move our mail system to a more modular
> enviroment and we'll probably move away from ZFS. Was a nice experiment
> nonetheless, I learned quite a bit from it.

I find this all very interesting...

"Please keep in mind the current 0.5.2 stable release does not yet
support a mountable filesystem. This functionality is currently
available only in the 0.6.0-rc6 release candidate."

https://github.com/downloads/zfsonlinux/zfs/zfs-0.6.0-rc6.tar.gz

"Uploaded October 14, 2011"

So in the past ~two weeks, you converted your 15K+ user production
server to ZFS on Linux, as an experiment, and have now decided to change
to another filesystem solution, a mere two weeks later?  Or am I
misinterpreting the date given that 0.6.0-rc6 was released?

-- 
Stan



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