Lots is certainly the wrong word now that i think about it. You need 4GB min for a reasonable zfs server plus more if you use dedupe
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Kevin <[email protected]> wrote: > Make sure you have lots of ram. > > If you are using raidz or raidz2 you will need to ensure your zdevs are > designed from the start as they cannot change in the future. > Pools are cool > snapshots are good > > checkout btrfs. > > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Colin Fee <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 12 July 2013 12:06, Colin Fee <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Last night after some updates on my media server, one of the disks in a >>> mirror set failed a SMART check and was kicked out (fortunately I have good >>> backups). It's failing on the bad sector count but I haven't done a deeper >>> analysis yet. >>> >>> However it's time to bite the bullet and do some upgrade work. I'm >>> intending to replace all of the disks with larger ones to increase the >>> storage size and when I do, use ZFS. >>> >>> The box is based around a Gigabyte GA-880GM-USB3 mobo, with an AMD >>> Phenom II X6 1055T cpu and buckets of RAM and the OS on a 240Gb SSD. >>> >>> So I'm looking for a strategy re the implementation of ZFS. I can >>> install up to 4 SATA disks onto the mobo (5 in total with one slot used by >>> the SSD) >>> >>> >> I should add to that I've begun reading through necessary literature and >> sites, and a colleague at work who uses ZFS extensively on his home Mac >> server stuff has given me some intro videos to watch. >> >> I guess what I'm asking is for pointers to the gotchas that most people >> overlook or those gems that people have gleaned from experience. >> -- >> Colin Fee >> [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> luv-main mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main >> >> >
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