The subject is pretty much the question. Perhaps there's a better place to be asking this question ...
We have (very briefly) discussed the possibility of using FreeBSD pizza boxes as a storage heads direct attached to external JBOD arrays with ZFS. In perusing the list, I haven't stumbled across indications of people actually doing this. External JBODs would be running 24 to 48TB each, roughly. There would be a couple of units. The pizza boxes would be used for computational tasks, and nominally would have 8 cores and 96G+ RAM. Obvious questions are hardware compatibility and stability. I've set up small FreeBSD 9 machines with ZFS roots and simple mirrors for other tasks here, and those have been successful so far. Observations would be appreciated. Oscar. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
