On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, kevin williams wrote: > > The article says that ZFS eliminates the need for a RAID card and is > faster because the striping is running on the main cpu rather than > an old chipset on a card. My question is, is this true? Can I
Ditto what the other guys said. Since ZFS may generate more I/O traffic from the CPU, you will want an adaptor with lots of I/O ports. SATA/SAS with a port per drive is ideal. It is useful to have a NVRAM cache on the card if you will be serving NFS or running a database, although some vendors sell this NVRAM cache as a card which plugs into the backplane and uses a special driver. ZFS is memory-hungry so 4GB of RAM is a good starting point for a server. Make sure that your CPU and OS are able to run a 64-bit kernel. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
