Well I would like to thank everyone for there comments and ideas.
I finally have this machine up and running with Nexenta Community edition and
am really liking the GUI for administering it. It suits my needs perfectly and
is running very well. I ended up going with 2 X 7 RaidZ2 vdevs in one poo
Since i already have Open Solaris installed on the box, i probably wont jump
over to FreeBSD. However someone has suggested to me to look into
www.nexenta.org and i must say it is quite interesting. Someone correct me if i
am wrong but it looks like it is Open Solaris based and has basically
ev
Freddie,
now you have brought up another question :) I had always assumed that i would
just used open solaris for this file server build, as i had not actually done
any research in regards to other operatin systems that support ZFS. Does anyone
have any advice as to wether i should be consideri
I am booting from a single 74gig WD raptor attached to the motherboards onboard
SATA port.
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Ahh,
Thank you for the reply Bob, that is the info i was after. It looks like i will
be going with the 2 X 7 RaidZ2 option.
And just to clarify as far as expanding this pool in the future my only option
is to add another 7 spindle RaidZ2 array correct?
Thanks for all the help guys !
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Thank you for the replies guys!
I was actually already planning to get another 4 gigs of ram for the box right
away anyway, but thank you for mentioning it! As there appears to be a couple
ways to "skin the cat" here i think i am going to try both a 14 spindle RaidZ2
and 2 X 7 RaidZ2 configura
I have been searching this forum and just about every ZFS document i can find
trying to find the answer to my questions. But i believe the answer i am
looking for is not going to be documented and is probably best learned from
experience.
This is my first time playing around with open solaris
