>> 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!
My pools with no redundancy is working very fine. Redundancy is better but you can certainly run without. You should do backups in all cases. > >> 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. I don't know about the CPU but 1Gb RAM on a home server works fine. I even have a 256Mb debian in virtualbox on my server with 1Gb RAM. Just turn X11 off. (/usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -d) The installation have a higher RAM requirement than the installed system as you can't have swap for the installation. Before ZFS solaris has improved its RAM usage for every release. Workstations are a different matter. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
