On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I thought of going on the ZFS way (on FreeBSD of course) with some > > i think you already tested it well and compared to normal UFS.
Well when ( if ) i'm going to actually buy the server i will so some tests with ZFS and some with UFS. On the ZFS side the most attractive thing is the backup and of course the easiness of administration. > >> raidz. One of the problems >> is that the server will stay in their office so it has to be quite silent. >> >> I honestly don't know what hardware to look for so if you have any >> suggestions >> i'm more than open to hear them. > > if i were you i would get any motherboard with 8 SATA ports, up to 8 1TB > disks, cheapest available CPU, good PCIe gigabit cards or two. 8x1TB with some mirroring + striping would equal how much in terms of available space? Sorry i have to do my homework regarding RAID :|. > > if it has to be single volume i would use gstripe, or if it should be > protected somehow - graid3 or graid5, and use UFS. > > if it's not that important - simply making each whole drive as one > filesystem and multiple mount points. > > i strongly recommend later way - in case of any problems it's easiest to > solve. > Thank you for you thoughts, v _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
