[Users] Big comparison Ploop and ext4 vs simfs vs ZFS

[Pavel Odintsov]

Hello!

Thanks for feedback! We have more details in Git repository page.

But actually we haven't performance tests for this benchmarks because they
are executed few months ago ;)

On Friday, July 24, 2015, Kirill Kolyshkin <kolyshkin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pavel,
>
> Thanks for sharing. I have a few comments.
>
> 1. The article only compares disk space usage and nothing else.
> Performance, memory footprint, maintainability etc are all left aside. If
> this is the only optimization criteria for you, it's fine, but usually such
> comparison won't work. Say, you compare two Linux distros by their
> installation time and find out that Gentoo is the worst of all, and any
> live CD based one is the best (as it doesn't require installation at all,
> so installation time is zero).
>
> So, due to the fact you only have one criterion in your comparison, the
> conclusions you came to are also incorrect, at least from my POV. It can be
> something like "you can achieve disk space savings with ZFS, while with
> ploop there is a certain overhead" or so.
>
> 2. "due to ploop bugs" — the term bugs is obviously used incorrect here.
> On Jul 24, 2015 01:28, "Pavel Odintsov" <pavel.odintsov at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','pavel.odintsov at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Hello, folks!
>>
>> Big thanks for your attention to my work about ZFS:
>> https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/OpenVZ_ZFS
>>
>> And I would like to share with community our own ZFS tests from
>> FastVPS Eesti OU experience (fastvps.ru).
>>
>> We are company with 5 year experience with OpenVZ in heavy production
>> usage.
>>
>> We have used ploop, simfs and ZFS for many years together. And we
>> operate about 1PB (yep, it's single pe-ta-by-te) of customer's data
>> with great care.
>>
>> So, we could share this article:
>> http://www.stableit.ru/2015/07/effectiveness-of-zfs-usage-for-openvz.html
>> which shown how ZFS bit ext4 and ploop.
>>
>> Feedback and another tests are welcome!
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov
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Sincerely yours, Pavel Odintsov
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