Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practice for setting ACL

2010-09-13 Thread Craig Stevenson
So Cindy, Simon (or anyone else)... now that we are over a year past when Simon wrote his excellent blog introduction, is there an updated best practices for ACLs with CIFS? Or, is this blog entry still the best word on the street? In my case, I am supporting multiple PCs (Workgroup) and Macs;

[zfs-discuss] zpool create using whole disk - do I add p0? E.g. c4t2d0 or c42d0p0

2010-09-07 Thread Craig Stevenson
I have seen conflicting examples on how to create zpools using full disks. The zpool(1M) page uses c0t0d0 but OpenSolaris Bible and others show c0t0d0p0. E.g.: zpool create tank raidz c0t0d0 c0t1d0 c0t2d0 c0t3d0 c0t4d0 c0t5d0 zpool create tank raidz c0t0d0p0 c0t1d0p0 c0t2d0p0 c0t3d0p0

[zfs-discuss] Configuration questions for Home File Server (CPU cores, dedup, checksum)?

2010-09-07 Thread Craig Stevenson
I am working on a home file server. After reading a wide range of blogs and forums, I have a few questions that are still not clear to me 1. Is there a benefit in having quad core CPU (e.g. Athlon II X4 vs X2)? All of the web blogs seem to suggest using lower-wattage dual core CPUs. But;