Elm, Rob wrote:
Hello ZFS Discussion Members,
I'm looking for help or advice on a project I'm working on:
I have a 939 Gigabyte motherboard, with 4 SATAII ports on the nForce4
chipset, and 4 SATA ports off the SIL3114 controller. I recently purchased
5, 320gig SATAII drives...
http://tinyurl.com/yf5z9o
I wanted to install Solaris86 on this machine and turn it into a NAS server.
ZFS looks very attractive, but I don't believe it can be used for a boot
drive.
How would you setup a system like this?
I'd boot on ide for now. In the future, we'll be able to boot from
a ZFS mirror, but since most root drives don't get much use, sticking
w/ two ide drives there would prob. be fine.
There are performance/space/safety tradeoffs to be made. What are your
goals wrt to these attributes?
I can purchase additional SATA or IDE hard drives...For example, I could get
3 more 320gig SATAII drives, and fill all the SATA ports. And hook up an
IDE drive as the system boot drive.
Sincerely,
You may wish to take a look at my latest blog post:
http://blogs.sun.com/barts
- Bart
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Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/barts
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