Unix File System

FreeBSD: Filesystem Performance – The Setup

Posted on by Savagedlight

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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