Sounds good / clear. I have tried ZFS a few times in the past 5 years, and in all cases for my use cases I am much happier with linux software raid config. I do realize different people have different use cases!
Maybe you need more ram, CPU, and possibly other config tuning, in order to achieve acceptable / optimal IO performance. Or different SSD drives as others suggested. Lots of fun options!
I hope it works out well.
I will probably try another test install of proxmox 'sometime this year' just for fun, using ZFS, to see how things have changed since the last time I tested it out. But I guess I'm on the other side of the same argument as you - I have enough systems now which I have deployed, which work really smoothly, that continuing to do the same thing - is simpler than trying something different that breaks the mould. (ie, in my case the 'mould' is - stock proxmox on machines with HW raid; or debian-SW-raid / sometimes with 'bcache' layer added for boosted performance - then adding proxmox-to-debian after-the-fact -- and this 'just works' so smoothly, that -- the various 'maybe useful icing features' are not sufficient for any of my use cases). But you are right, ZFS does have a lot of nice features built in. And it is very nice that it is a 'supported config' in proxmox install.
Thanks!
Tim
Maybe you need more ram, CPU, and possibly other config tuning, in order to achieve acceptable / optimal IO performance. Or different SSD drives as others suggested. Lots of fun options!
I hope it works out well.
I will probably try another test install of proxmox 'sometime this year' just for fun, using ZFS, to see how things have changed since the last time I tested it out. But I guess I'm on the other side of the same argument as you - I have enough systems now which I have deployed, which work really smoothly, that continuing to do the same thing - is simpler than trying something different that breaks the mould. (ie, in my case the 'mould' is - stock proxmox on machines with HW raid; or debian-SW-raid / sometimes with 'bcache' layer added for boosted performance - then adding proxmox-to-debian after-the-fact -- and this 'just works' so smoothly, that -- the various 'maybe useful icing features' are not sufficient for any of my use cases). But you are right, ZFS does have a lot of nice features built in. And it is very nice that it is a 'supported config' in proxmox install.
Thanks!
Tim
