Short answer: yes you can. Long answer: yes you can - you can even use compression. There are two options:
1) Using ZFS as file server (NAS) 2) Using ZFS as backend iSCSI storage backend for your Windows fileserver (SAN) Both is possible, while I would prefer 2) if you use Windows AD. In both cases make sure you have enouth RAM or L2ARC SSD in your box. Estimate: for 5 TB you would need between 10 GB (128kb recordsize) and 125 GB (8k recordsize) (depending on blocksize). Suggestion: 12 GB of Main Memory + 2 x 80 GB SSD for L2ARC (this way you can even go with 8 gb records size). Robert -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list storage-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
