I still haven't got any "warm and fuzzy" responses yet solidifying ZFS in combination with Firewire or USB enclosures.
I am looking for 4-10 drive enclosures for quiet SOHO desktop-ish use. I am trying to confirm that OpenSolaris+ZFS would be stable with this, if exported out as JBOD and allow ZFS to manage each disk individually. Enclosure idea (choose one): http://fwdepot.com/thestore/default.php/cPath/1_88 Would be looking to use 750GB SATA2 drives, or IDE is fine too. Would anyone be willing to speak up and give me some faith in this before I invest money into a solution that won't work? I don't intend on hot-plugging any of these devices, just using Firewire (or USB, if I can find a big enclosure) since it is a cheap and reliable interconnect (eSATA seems to be a little too new for use with OpenSolaris unless I have some PCI-X slots) Any help is appreciated. I'd most likely use a Shuttle XPC as the "head unit" for all of this - it is quiet and small. (I'm looking to downsize my beefy huge noisy heavy tower with limited space availability) - obviously bandwidth on the bus would be limited the more drives sharing the same cable. That would be my only design constraint. Thanks a ton. Again, any input (good, bad, ugly, personal experiences or opinions) is appreciated A LOT! - mike _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
