From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 30 15:11:12 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48CF45AC for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 15:11:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qg0-f42.google.com (mail-qg0-f42.google.com [209.85.192.42]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B1542002 for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 15:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qg0-f42.google.com with SMTP id q107so5816239qgd.1 for ; Fri, 30 May 2014 08:11:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=1yj615AthP1CZTahtKGDad2EMAyr+XRSXKE0/kr/rT8=; b=XDbBGybr84XWhy2XNRVIO+NTs45+aapJbpgyGOIiz7E/7QoKswIZNr62I+z/vpuA8P AMMonbYc6s/uRKIrYFvMOL7a/xOvEpd/01i5Sb6jP/+jIG8Twfs3qHHS5im7Z5STkMJ4 6fJROWqFMI1SZcbhEyFvm+mWVO2BfChRfo93j48LfltWEOnh77l850tj6TTWszZfINAy RAV8pu3BrInTza97IjWy013CWSEvXw932TGLtyRCgkSr/hU3dTkYKX3sA7tAQvxi519L I1PGV2ceXMlm664w8vgfJ8rewAc9VcXMJti4nlXNX3n9bpjrHFBDvDe/z80N4tC1lWGe j1Ig== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnl87OnH+WjbCBZNNGLtM0PczHd2DWLzKpVDD7aqwpH2ojqTncCKbvpkS88sJd7V1II1oRu MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.224.119.131 with SMTP id z3mr21459142qaq.91.1401462670307; Fri, 30 May 2014 08:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.36.84 with HTTP; Fri, 30 May 2014 08:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 11:11:10 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: ZFS Recommendations for a new server From: Alejandro Imass To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 15:11:12 -0000 Hi! I am setting up a new server and would like to migrate to FBSD 10 and ZFS. I have no experience with either so asking for some guidance. Our experience has been mostly on FBSD 8 and 9 on UFS. The new server has a 2 x 1TB RE4 3ware 9650SE RAID and I have friends that tell me is actually better to use ZFS RAID instead of HW RAID1. Is this true? Why so? I will ask this on the EzJail list as well but are there any things to watch out for using EzJails on FBSD 10.0-RELEASE and ZFS ?? We are heavy users of EzJail. Many thanks in advance, Alejandro Imass