I feel like this one flew right over my head. 🥹
That is totally possible. I spent a month changing boards and CPUs to fix a curse on my main, unrelated to storage. In case you’re curious.
That doesn’t speak much of the architecture. Also it’s really odd. Not denying what you’re seeing is happening, just that it seems odd based on the setups I run with ZFS. My main server is in fact a shared machine that I use as a workstation and games along as a server. All works in parallel. I used to have a mirror, then a 4-disk RAIDz and now an 8-disk RAIDz2. I have multiple applications constantly using the pool. I don’t notice any performance slowdowns on the desktop, or in-game when IO goes high. The only time I notice anything is when something like multiple Plex transcoders hit the CPU hard. Sequential performance is around 1.3GB/s which is limited by the data bus speeds (USB DAS boxes). Random performance is very good although I don’t have any numbers out of my head. I’m using mostly WD Elements shucked disks and a couple of IronWolfs. No enterprise grade disks on this system.
I’m also not saying that you have to keep fucking around with it instead of going Btrfs. Simply adding another anecdote to the picture. If I had a serious problem like that and couldn’t figure it out I’d be on LVMRAID+Ext4 which is what used prior to ZFS.
What seems dated in its architecture? Last time I looked at it, it struck me as pretty modern compared to what’s in use today.
You shouldn’t have abysmal performance with ZFS. Something must be up.
Am enjoying it more than ever almost 20 years in.
What I took from this post is that every living room / home theater setup needs a server rack instead of a HiFi rack. Dudnt matter what you thrown in it, it looks badass.
Absolutely not.
Unfused. Probes/cables began rapidly heating up. I violently shook the the battery to break off the probes from it.
Probe tips instantly welded on a nanophosphate A123 battery.
Good person! This is how you learn Linux and gain experience. Trying to understand why something happened and trying to fix it using that understanding. Not “just reinstall” or worse “you should use X distro instead.”
“It’s herding cats: introducing Rust effectively is one part coding work and ninety-nine parts political work…”
All software development in a team is. More like 20/80 or 40/60 if you’re lucky.
Even free software isn’t, because free software delivers objective, non-placebo benefits to people, whether they “practice it” or not. Even when they don’t consciously participate or are even aware of it.
God doesn’t work. Linux does. Prayers to God are left unanswered. Prayers to Linux are accepted via well defined interfaces and answered if you have the correct permissions.
As a former computer service technician, we used Ubuntu Live USB and DVDs (yes it was a long ago) a lot.
The only appropriate response under this comic strip.