From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 13:29:03 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F99F1065672 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:29:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hagge1983@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E49DD8FC0A for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:29:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hagge1983@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 24so1590485wfg.7 for ; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:29:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; bh=NuLc5HSCCGoqKO7SIwd8m+LejDgtEMMXFiWMyBjM7+w=; b=mpsbKpKeocItV1E4Ygd38JlBng+bI6RUNUp+zP7l4VLB1Es7ZbXDiWGLX2nldVFQyN NqllYnIl3Ib9klYFLwLG5m9MF0BX5NmiIGHF0OmUWRtPwJY3h2hdK0VUbiXa2EfJ2bF0 XrcaKq4JA0J4NkvIqn+DUEW7uKvQoWvL9pM0E= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-google-sender-auth; b=vnHzRRiab0HyCkl7TCYoogCJmC7v4ToEItiPVQwjktid/6bgrJ8/JmCtOLvUrCjFHC TL5oWbjcYe6243I6ZR9dRNTdqmbQUhzUbEwJgVBevZ7uA5CNsdnI2fGUyRu0pmap5ZNJ clz7lWVTEuG5L2BzaNh0EFKsPPMEaZiPZNeVA= Received: by 10.142.147.18 with SMTP id u18mr926315wfd.343.1212930279664; Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:04:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.169.6 with HTTP; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 06:04:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1a5a68400806080604ped08ce8p120fc21107e7de81@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:04:39 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_H=E4ggstr=F6m?=" Sender: hagge1983@gmail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: bb48efc26811bca1 Subject: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:29:03 -0000 Hello list! I plan to install a web server for production use and ZFS looks very interesting, especially since it has built-in support for RAID and checksum. The hardware is already purchased, a 1U-casis with a PhemonX4 9550 CPU, 4GB ECC RAM @ 800MHz and 2x500GB SATA disks and I am about to select the operating system to use. The choice is probably between "Debian 4.0r3", "FreeBSD 7.0" and "OpenSolaris 2008.05". All of them have their pros and cons. I think Debian / Linux, almost falls off because it lacks support for native ZFS and I have not found any alternative filesystem that offer checksums on the fly. My main question is: How is the support for ZFS on FreeBSD? Is it sufficiently stable and fast enough to be used in production yet? If not, is there any alternative filesystem that offers checksums on the fly or other similar technology to reduce the risk of a corrupt filesystem that at the same time plays well with software RAID (RAID-1 in particular)? Thanks in advance! Anders