John Smith wrote: > The original thought was 3 of the drives as storage, and one of the drives as > parity. So that would yield around 1.4TB of useable storage. Then raidz is your only option.
> I hadn't given any thought to running 64 bit. This system is being built > from the ground up. I guess in the back of my head I had assumed it would be > 32 bit due to maturity of the platform as a whole (I'm speaking across all > OS's) with drivers and such. > > That's not the case with Solaris. If the processor is 64bit, the OS will run 64bit. It was the processor I was asking about, you said dual core P4, which confused me. ZFS works best with a 64 bit processor and plenty of RAM. Ian. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
