These are the results of this weekends benchmarking! I’ve tested a single-drive UFS2 file system, and compared it to several ZFS configurations (single and multi-drive). For all the juicy details on configuration and testing methods, please see FreeBSD: Filesystem Performance – The Setup.

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I’ve run a series of benchmarks on my prototyping server to determine performance differences between a variety of configurations:

• Single drive UFS2
• Single drive ZFS
• ZFS 3-way mirror
• ZFS stripe across 3 drives
• ZFS RaidZ across 3 drives
• ZFS RaidZ across 3 drives, plus a SSD as cache.

All the details on configuration and benchmark methods are below!
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