Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-20 Thread krad
On 18 February 2010 11:24, Christian Baer wrote: > krad schrieb: > > > On another point make sure your p4 has plenty of ram preferably 4gb, but > at > > least 2 > > Exactly what good will that much RAM do for a 32Bit-CPU? > > Regards, > Chris > ___ > fre

Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-19 Thread Christian Baer
krad schrieb: > On another point make sure your p4 has plenty of ram preferably 4gb, but at > least 2 Exactly what good will that much RAM do for a 32Bit-CPU? Regards, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/02/2010 00:28, Ghirai wrote: > On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:21:48 -0500 > mailinglist wrote: > >> UFS on the other hand will work just fine on 32bit systems and >> smaller and older machines. (The limitation with UFS is a maximum >> 2TB filesystem s

Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-18 Thread Ghirai
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:21:48 -0500 mailinglist wrote: > UFS on the other hand will work just fine on 32bit systems and > smaller and older machines. (The limitation with UFS is a maximum > 2TB filesystem size, but I suspect this will not cause you any > practical > > difficulties.) UFS2 has a

Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-18 Thread mailinglist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does your old P4 support 64-bit operation? Does it have 2GB RAM or more? If not, then you might want to reconsider using ZFS. It's not that it won't or can't be made to work given those limitations, but you'll find it hard work to get it runnin

Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/02/2010 00:11, mailinglist wrote: > I've got an old P4 desktop computer running in the basement with a 1 > TB external USB drive connected to that I use as a file server. That > PC is running XP. It has recently become infected with some sort of

Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-17 Thread krad
On 18 February 2010 00:11, mailinglist wrote: > I've got an old P4 desktop computer running in the basement with a 1 TB > external USB drive connected to that I use as a file server. That PC is > running XP. It has recently become infected with some sort of virus. I'd > like to replace it with

FreeBSD File Server with ZFS

2010-02-17 Thread mailinglist
I've got an old P4 desktop computer running in the basement with a 1 TB external USB drive connected to that I use as a file server. That PC is running XP. It has recently become infected with some sort of virus. I'd like to replace it with FreeBSD running ZFS + Samba (I need to access it fro