Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> ...
> Depending on what you are serving, it may be beneficial to have the OS
> on a separate spindle. If you're in the midst of serving a data stream
> you may not want the drive to have to seek to run something for the OS,
> or to fetch swap...
If the box is just a file
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 09:38:18AM -0500, RS wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > Upon which will you be backing your data (isn't English wonderful).
> > What will you be using for backup for the 1TB of data? Remember, raid
> > only protects
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> The other thing to consider is the duty-cycle of the box. Is it to be
> left on 24/7, 7/5, etc? How much of that time will it be actively used
> and at what intensity? What throughput are you wanting to serve and how
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Richard Daemon
>
> On an OpenBSD mailing list you're recommending OpenSolaris?
>
> Why not at least FreeBSD with ZFS? ;-)
>
Right tool for the right job. FreeBSD's zfs implementation still has issues
the last I looked. If all you want is a box of drives, zfs is de
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:31 PM, bofh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
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> > On 2008-03-06, RS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
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> > > I'll be using a cheap Athlon X2 / 1GB / Gig ethernet / mATX board to
> > > complete th
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 01:41:43PM -0500, RS wrote:
> looking at either a couple of Samsung 750GB spinpoint's or the 1TB Seagate
> Barracuda.
Only based on my personal experience, I keep boxes around forever (or at
least until gcc stops supporting them) so I keep drives until they die
of old age.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On 2008-03-06, RS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'll be using a cheap Athlon X2 / 1GB / Gig ethernet / mATX board to
> > complete the setup. I will definitely use OpenBSD's RAIDCtl for RAID 1
> > instead of the crappy
On 2008-03-06, RS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am planning to build an OpenBSD storage server for home use. I was
> wondering if I could get some advice before I buy the hard disks. I am
> looking at either a couple of Samsung 750GB spinpoint's or the 1TB Seagate
> Barra
Hi,
I am planning to build an OpenBSD storage server for home use. I was
wondering if I could get some advice before I buy the hard disks. I am
looking at either a couple of Samsung 750GB spinpoint's or the 1TB Seagate
Barracuda. I understand AHCI support was added to 4.2 and I'd like
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