On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Scott Lawson <scott.law...@manukau.ac.nz> wrote:
> One thing you haven't mentioned is the drive type and size that you are > planning to use as this > greatly influences what people here would recommend. RAIDZ2 is built for > big, slow SATA > disks as reconstruction times in large RAIDZ's and RAIDZ2's increase the > risk of vdev failure > significantly due to the time taken to resilver to a replacement drive. Hot > spares are your friend! Well these are Seagate 1.5TB SATA disks. So.. big slow disks ;) > You did also state that this is a system to be used for backups? So > availability is five 9's? > > Are you planning on using Open Solaris or mainstream Solaris 10? Mainstream > Solaris > 10 is more conservative and is capable of being placed under a support > agreement if need > be. Nope. Home storage (DVDs, music, etc) - I'd be fine with mainstream Solaris, the only reason I went with SXCE was for the in-kernel CIFS, which I wound up not using anyway due to some weird bug. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
