Christopher Gibbs wrote: > On 9/27/07, David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> How long are you going to need this data? Do you have an easy and quick >> way to back it all up? Is the volume you need going to grow over time? >> For *my* home server, the need to expand over time ended up dominating >> the disk architecture, and I chose a less efficient (more space/money >> lost to redundant storage) architecture that was easier to upgrade in >> small increments, because that fit my intention to maintain the data >> long-term, and the lack of any efficient easy way to back up and restore >> the data (I *do* back it up to external firewire disks, but it takes 8 >> hours or so, so I don't want to have to have the system down for a full >> two-way copy when I need to upgrade the disk sizes).
>> David, mind sharing the specifics of your configuration? >> >> I'm also about to re-configure my home file server so I'm interested >> in what configurations people are using. >> Asus M2n SLI Deluxe motherboard with AMD x2 processor and 2GB ram in a Chenbro case, maybe the 106? The pictures online show a different door than the one I have, so I may have the wrong model, but they may just have restyled the door. 8 hot-swap bays. Trouble is, hot-swap isn't recognized on the chipset on that motherboard, so I'm currently living with that. Currently using two bays for the boot disks, leaving my 6 bays (but only 4 controllers) for data disks. I picked up a bunch of 400GB spare SATA (Sun-branded Hitachi drives) from work when they were put out for disposal, so I've got two mirror pairs in there right now. Also I can't get RSA authentication to work with sshd on Solaris, and I keep asking here and elsewhere and nobody has been able to help yet, darn it (over a year now). I use RSA2 authentication to other servers just fine. -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
