On Tue, February 28, 2012 01:10, Eugene M. Zheganin wrote: > Hi. > > On 28.02.2012 01:02, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: >> regardless of the pool size ? >> >> I was planning on making an atom board a file server for my home, and I have >> two options: soekris >> net6501 2GB RAM and intel board powered by the 330 atom (says 2GB limited as >> well). My plans are to use from 4 up to 8 disks, and they should be 2TB at least. >> >> As its for home use, some p2p software and mostly music listening and >> sometimes movie streaming. >> >> should 2GB be that bad, that I should drop it and use UFS instead ? >> >> I may run any version of FreeBSD on it, was planning on 9-STABLE or 9.1. >> > In the same time I have a couple of hosts successfully running zfs on 768 > Megs and on 1 Gig of RAM. Both i386. > And they aren't affected by the periodic weekly for some reason. And they are > used only as fileservers. > > So when I see all these advices to add a gazillion gigabytes of RAM to use > zfs - I don't see the connection.
Eugene, what's the pool size ? I'd like to use one using 4x 2TB disks (may be 3TB). and other using random disks that may evolve to that same amount. matheus -- We will call you Cygnus, The God of balance you shall be A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"