Sandro wrote: > hi > > I am currently running a linux box as my fileserver at home. > It's got eight 250 gig sata2 drives connected to two sata pci controllers and > configured as one big raid5 with linux software raid. > Linux is (and solaris will be) installed on two separate mirrored disks. > > I've been playing around with solaris 10 and zfs at work and I'm pretty > exited about it and now I'd like to migrate my fileserver to solaris and zfs. > > Now I just wanted to hear your opinion on how to configure these eight disks. > Should I use raidz or raidz2 and how many pools, block size and so on? > > Most of my files are between 200 and 800 megs and a total of 100.000 files. > > The new solaris box will have 2 gigs of mem and a AMD dualcore cpu around > 2ghz. > > Any suggestions, tips or experiences ? > > Have a look back the the many similar threads to this in this list, the general answer is "it depends". There are many possibilities with 8 drives, each offering different performance/reliability trade offs.
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