thanks all for the feedback! i definitely learned a lot-- storage isn't
anywhere near my field of expertise, so it's great to get some real examples to
go with all the buzzwords you hear around the watercooler. ;)
i'll probably give one of the raid-z or mirroring setups suggested a try when i
hi,
i just set up snv_54 on an old p4 celeron system and even tho the processor is
crap, it's got 3 7200RPM HDs: 1 80GB and 2 40GBs. so i'm wondering if there is
an optimal way to lay out the ZFS pool(s) to make this old girl as fast as
possible
as it stands now i've got the following dri
i have a machine with a disk that has some sort of defect and i've found that
if i partition only half of the disk that the machine will still work. i tried
to use 'format' to scan the disk and find the bad blocks, but it didn't work.
so as i don't know where the bad blocks are but i'd still li
