On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Vincent Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone tried Nevada with ZFS on small platforms?
Yes - on the least powerful system I would even think of trying ZFS on - an Intel D945GCLF2 (dual-core 1.6GHz Atom 330) with 2Gb of RAM and 2 SATA ports. It came up in 32-bit mode - now I know a later version of OpenSolaris will run in 64-bit mode on this platform (the motherboard with CPU costs about $85 - you just install an in-expensive 2Gb SIMM and you're ready to roll. It was a little slower than I would like - felt like I was going backwards in time to the earlier P4 based systems. > I ordered one of these: > > http://www.fit-pc.com/new/fit-pc-slim-specifications.html > > Planning to stick in a 160-gig Samsung drive and use it for lightweight > household server. Probably some Samba usage, and a tiny bit of Apache & > RADIUS. I don't need it to be super-fast, but slow as watching paint dry > won't You know that you need a minimum of 2 disks to form a (mirrored) pool with ZFS? A pool with no redundancy is not a good idea! > work either. Just curious if anyone else has tried something similar > everything I > read says ZFS wants 1-gig RAM but don't say what size of > penalty I would pay > for having less. I could run Linux on it of course but now prefer to remain > free of > the tyranny of fsck. I don't think that there is enough CPU "horse-power" on this platform to run OpenSolaris - and you need approx 768Kb (3/4 of a Gb) of RAM just to install it. After that OpenSolaris will only increase in size over time.... To try to run it as a ZFS server would be madness - worse than watching paint dry. There are some RAID controllers on the market with more horsepower than you've got in this system.... OTOH - this platform would make an excellent firewall if you load MonoWall on it! Regards, -- Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc,Plano,TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/ogb_2005-2007/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
