I have been searching this forum and just about every ZFS document i can find
trying to find the answer to my questions. But i believe the answer i am
looking for is not going to be documented and is probably best learned from
experience.
This is my first time playing around with open solaris
Thank you for the replies guys!
I was actually already planning to get another 4 gigs of ram for the box right
away anyway, but thank you for mentioning it! As there appears to be a couple
ways to skin the cat here i think i am going to try both a 14 spindle RaidZ2
and 2 X 7 RaidZ2
Ahh,
Thank you for the reply Bob, that is the info i was after. It looks like i will
be going with the 2 X 7 RaidZ2 option.
And just to clarify as far as expanding this pool in the future my only option
is to add another 7 spindle RaidZ2 array correct?
Thanks for all the help guys !
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Freddie,
now you have brought up another question :) I had always assumed that i would
just used open solaris for this file server build, as i had not actually done
any research in regards to other operatin systems that support ZFS. Does anyone
have any advice as to wether i should be
Since i already have Open Solaris installed on the box, i probably wont jump
over to FreeBSD. However someone has suggested to me to look into
www.nexenta.org and i must say it is quite interesting. Someone correct me if i
am wrong but it looks like it is Open Solaris based and has basically
Well I would like to thank everyone for there comments and ideas.
I finally have this machine up and running with Nexenta Community edition and
am really liking the GUI for administering it. It suits my needs perfectly and
is running very well. I ended up going with 2 X 7 RaidZ2 vdevs in one
