On Wed, February 11, 2009 13:45, Ian Collins wrote: > David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> I've spent $2000 on hardware and, by now, hundreds of hours of my time >> trying to get and keep a ZFS-based home NAS working. > > Hundreds of hours doing what? I just plugged in the drives, built the > pool and left the box in a corner for the past couple of years. It's > been upgraded twice, from build 62 to 72 to get the SATA framework and > then to b101 for CIFS.
Well, good for you. It took me a lot of work to get it working in the first place (and then with only 4 of my 8 hot-swap bays, 4 of my 6 eSATA connections on the motherboard) working. Before that, I'd spent quite a lot of time trying to get VMWare to run Solaris, which it wouldn't back then. I did manage to get Parallels, I think it was, to let me create a Solaris system and then a ZFS pool to play with (this was back before OpenSolaris and before any sort of LiveCD I could find). Then I had a series of events starting in December of last year that, in hindsight, I think were mainly or entirely one memory SIMM going bad, which caused me to upgrade to 2008.11 and also have to restore my main pool from backup. Oh, and converted from using Samba to using CIFS. I'm just now getting close to having things up working again usably and stably, still working on backup. I do still have some problems with file access permissions I know, due to the new different handling of ACLs I guess. And I wasn't a Solaris admin to begin with. I guess SunOS back when was the first Unix I had root on, but since then I've mostly worked with Linux (including my time as news admin for a local ISP, and my years as an engineer with Sun, where I was in the streaming video server group). In some ways a completely UNfamiliar system might have been easier :-). -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ 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
