EXT4 or ZFS for single Host with LXC containers ?

[yena]

Hello,
i have to setup a little standalone server with proxmox 4 and 3/4 LXC Debian 8 Containers.
ARECA 1200 Raid Mirror with two WD RED 2 TB.

Is it better EXT4 or ZFS ?

Thanks!
Enrico

 

[yena]

Hello,
i have to setup a little standalone server with proxmox 4 and 3/4 LXC Debian 8 Containers.
ARECA 1200 Raid Mirror with two WD RED 2 TB.

Is it better EXT4 or ZFS ?

Thanks!
Enrico

My Testing on LXC Guest Debian 8:

 

[wolfgang]

Hi,
There are some things to consider.

With Zfs you have more features like snapshot containers.
but zfs should not used on HW Raids.
ext4 is faster and have less features.

 

[yena]

I have made a test on one of my standard server
with Areca 1200 and 2 HD WD red 2TB mirror:
Seem ZFS with KVM Windows server 2012 VM is Faster then Ext4 or LVM..

No Testing now for LXC

Hi,
There are some things to consider.

With Zfs you have more features like snapshot containers.
but zfs should not used on HW Raids.
ext4 is faster and have less features.

 

[sigxcpu]

ZFS (and all COW filesystems) is slower than ext4. It depends if you want the features. I prefer the performance trade-off for two features: (fast) compression with LZ4 and snapshots.