Which is ideal with HAMMER? softraid or hammer volume_add

2011-12-29 Thread Zenny
nanoBSD is a fun to work with, yet very time consuming. There is a ton of stuffs that is coming with FreeBSD9 like the resource allocation to jails and HAST. The new FreeNAS team (maybe ixsystems management) has made some marketing gimmicks (http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?5291-Is-this-de

Re: Which is ideal with HAMMER? softraid or hammer volume_add

2011-12-28 Thread Zenny
Thanks Matt: I have been trying my best to create 3 (12TB each) servers with dragonflybsd with HAMMER to avoid zfs, but from what I read below, I have no option than going for a freebsd+zfs (with nanobsd). I indeed enjoyed being here and appreciate very courteous and supportive adopters and develo

Re: Which is ideal with HAMMER? softraid or hammer volume_add

2011-12-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
Definitely not hammer volume add, that's too experimental. Soft-raid is a bit of a joke in my view, since it typically ties you to a particular motherboard and bios (making it difficult to physically move disks to another machine if the mobo or psu dies), and as with all soft-ra

Re: Which is ideal with HAMMER? softraid or hammer volume_add

2011-12-27 Thread McLone
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 15:41, Zenny wrote: > (http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/commits/2009-12/msg00068.html). you need raid 0, right? i'd do volume-add if all you need is simple fileserver. In case you absolutely need striping (to split system's job between multiple spindles), i'd do na

Which is ideal with HAMMER? softraid or hammer volume_add

2011-12-27 Thread Zenny
I am just wondering which is better to work with HAMMER. I found 1) softraid with natacontrol ( http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/docs/howtos/howtosoftwareraid/) and 2) hammer volume-add (http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/commits/2009-12/msg00068.html). Both links inaccessible at the time o