Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Advice on a cheap home NAS machine using ZFS

2007-02-14 Thread Richard Elling
Luke Scharf wrote: Dave Sneddon wrote: Can anyone shed any light on whether the actual software side of this can be achieved? Can I share my entire ZFS pool as a "folder" or "network drive" so WinXP can read it? Will this be fast enough to read/write to at DV speeds (25mbit/s)? Once the pool is

[zfs-discuss] Re: Advice on a cheap home NAS machine using ZFS

2007-02-14 Thread Eric Haycraft
I get around 100Mbits per second sustained on big files transferring to/from my Solaris/zfs box and Vista over samba. That is over gigabit ethernet through one switch and one router. I personally think it should be faster, but is probably just due to my network hardware and not samba or zfs sinc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Advice on a cheap home NAS machine using ZFS

2007-02-08 Thread Luke Scharf
Dave Sneddon wrote: Can anyone shed any light on whether the actual software side of this can be achieved? Can I share my entire ZFS pool as a "folder" or "network drive" so WinXP can read it? Will this be fast enough to read/write to at DV speeds (25mbit/s)? Once the pool is set up and I have it

[zfs-discuss] Re: Advice on a cheap home NAS machine using ZFS

2007-02-05 Thread Dave Sneddon
Richard Elling wrote: > You might consider some of the mobos with 6 SATA ports, but in any case, > the chipset is somewhat important. There is pretty good support with > Solaris for NVidia NForce series. I had a look for some 6x SATA(2) boards. However they generally have more things attached to