(Sorry - I'm going to reply now on my mailing list account. I thought I could post via the forums but it seems like some of these replies are lost or I can't find them otherwise. So I'll stick to just using email for now, and join the list properly!)
On 7/20/08, James C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably. That's the sort of thing I would do if I could pull via > rsync. If I could only push via rsync things might be different. Yes, this is pull only. No pushing. > hybrid? I mean the amd64/x86_64 architecture. Not like, Itanium-style 64bit. > The HCL is a good place to start: > http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl > > Note that both the Solaris 10 and Solaris Express versions are useful > to you. You'll also find the Device Driver Detection Tool on the osol200805 > livecd, run that (java app) on your system and it'll tell you what's got > a driver and what doesn't. > > > Apart from the HCL and DDDT, I strongly recommend Masa Murayama's > drivers - > http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/index.html Okay, well once again, here's my end goal. The easiest path to it is best: Software-wise: - ZFS for the filesystem. It doesn't need to boot off ZFS, I'm fine with a separate partition if it's too complex still. - 6+ 1TB drives, a single RAIDZ setup (assuming roughly ~5TB usable space) - Services/sharing via CIFS, NFS, FTP, SSH/SCP/SFTP - Rsync 3.x to pull from remote servers - Capability to upgrade to the newer build of OSOL to get the new ZFS, CIFS, etc features. Hardware-wise: - The smallest, quietest chassis available, housing for 6+ drives - A NIC and SATA chipset that is stable/solid for ZFS/Solaris variants - Power management, if it works well, would be a nice feature, if ZFS plays nicely with drives spinning down to save power. Otherwise, I'm fine with it running full speed 24x7. Remember, I'm a newbie to anything Solaris - so the easiest way to administer this setup is my preferred method. Whether that is Solaris 10, Solaris Express, OpenSolaris, livecds, etc, etc... I tried installing Nexenta Core on a Mini-ITX box with 4 drives I built and it couldn't even boot. It was x86 with 2 gigs of RAM anyway, but that's about as much as I've tried. I don't want to have to do kernel patches or anything crazy, either... Thanks for the replies though. I'm going to shop around for some chassis and such and then see if I can cross reference the chipsets and whatnot in the HCL in the meantime. - mike _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
