Re: [clug-talk] WD Green HDD's with ZFS

2012-03-27 Thread Royce Souther
Okay I am looking at XFS. Two draw backs that need to be worked around. XFS can grow but cannot shrink, not a big deal as long as I leave one SATA port unused for a future drive to swap out an old one. The other draw back is that to run xfs_check (XFS version of fsck) you need A SHIT LOAD OF RAM or

Re: [clug-talk] WD Green HDD's with ZFS

2012-03-27 Thread Andrew J. Kopciuch
On March 27, 2012, Royce Souther wrote: > Okay I am looking at XFS. Two draw backs that need to be worked around. XFS > can grow but cannot shrink, not a big deal as long as I leave one SATA port > unused for a future drive to swap out an old one. The other draw back is > that to run xfs_check (XFS

Re: [clug-talk] WD Green HDD's with ZFS

2012-03-27 Thread Royce Souther
Thanks for the link. I was going to post the question of how to calculate that. It reminds me of the old days of Novell NetWare and how you had to calculate out how much RAM you needed for the size of drives you had and if you did not have enough memory it would crash during install and not tell y