Let’s tally up. For reference, this is one of a series of posts regarding compression testing on zpools: Experimenting with compression off Experimenting with compression=lz4 Experimenting with compression=zstd Compression results – you are here Samsung-SSD-870 4TB SSD For the Samsung-SSD-870 4TB SSD no compression we had: 2:34 = 154s 2:32 = 152s 2:30 = 150s 3:52 = 238s 4:46 = 286s 4:16 = 256s 4:15 = 255s 4:15 = 255s 4:49 = 289s […]
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When I destroyed the zpools when I was done with zstd compression testing, these errors appeared in /var/log/messages: You’d be shocked to learn these messages appear when creating a zpool with those devices: [12:21 r730-01 dvl ~/tmp] % sudo zpool create Samsung-SSD-980-PRO-geom-issues mirror /dev/nda1 /dev/nda2 re: Background: these two devices were part of a zpool before I started playing with them. They had partitions on them. Recovery and destroy There may be a
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Following on from my previous post where I tested lz4, let’s try compression=zstd. Experimenting with compression off Experimenting with compression=lz4 Experimenting with compression=zstd – you are here Compression results First, we delete the old: [21:19 r730-01 dvl ~/tmp] % sudo zpool destroy Samsung-SSD-870-compression-lz4 [21:19 r730-01 dvl ~/tmp] % sudo zpool destroy Samsung-SSD-980-PRO-compression-lz4 [21:19 r730-01 dvl ~/tmp] % sudo zpool destroy Samsung-SSD-990-EVO-compression-lz4 Then create the new: [21:19 r730-01 dvl ~/tmp] % sudo zpool create
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Following on from my previous post where I tested with compress off, let’s try compression=lz4. Experimenting with compression off Experimenting with compression=lz4 – you are here Experimenting with compression=zstd Compression results First, we delete the old: [19:45 r730-01 dvl ~] % sudo zpool destroy Samsung-SSD-870-no-compression [19:45 r730-01 dvl ~] % sudo zpool destroy Samsung-SSD-980-PRO-no-compression [19:46 r730-01 dvl ~] % sudo zpool destroy Samsung-SSD-990-EVO-no-compression [19:46 r730-01 dvl ~] % Then create the new: [19:47
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Now that the new storage is in place, I thought to test with compression on and off. Perhaps also use both lz4 and zstd. For reference, this is one of a series of posts regarding compression testing on zpools: Experimenting with compression off – you are here Experimenting with compression=lz4 Experimenting with compression=zstd Compression results My plan: create three zpools of two mirrored devices and test. There will be three posts: compression off,
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I notice I also worked with some SSDs at the end of this post – I have since amended the title of this post. In this post: FreeBSD 14.3 Today I removed two existing NVMe cards, each with a 1TB stick on it. Those sticks were added to these cards: If you want the same hardware, you can use these links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. These are all
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I recently obtained two 4TB NVMe cards and two PCIe adapters, each of which holds two NVMe cards. This is what they looked like fully loaded: The thinner NVMe is the new 4TB card, and the thicker card is the 1TB card, with heatsink, which I’ve had for some time. Yesterday I noticed the NVMe cards were not parallel with the adaptor. Earlier today, I fixed that. First, let’s look at the angles.
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This post is mostly for my benefit, so I can keep track of my plan for adjusting space. It doesn’t contain much of educational value. One recent day, I powered off r730-01 and took inventory of the 16 drive bays. A short overview: [17:36 r730-01 dvl ~] % zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CKPOINT EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT data01 5.81T 2.84T 2.97T – – 1% 48% 1.00x ONLINE – data02
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FreeBSD has a great concept of establishing default values and letting the user override them. That approach does not apply to newsyslog, and specifically, newsyslog.conf This idea came up on IRC after I said I was looking forward to a new FreeBSD 15 which allows the compression specified in newsyslog.conf to be overridden. Using /etc/newsyslog.conf.d Getting a clean copy First, I grabbed a pristine copy of /etc/newsyslog.conf from the repo: [12:34 r730-01 dvl
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Today I was trying to access my Dell 730 (r730-01) via the remote console. I failed. Twice. First and expected failure First, this was usual and expected. It’s been a problem both at home and at work. It is the inability to access the console via https using the hostname This is what I see: I can get in via IP address though. Second and new-to-me failure Next, after logging in via IP