From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 15:30:39 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 480C9106568D for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:30:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from nagual.nl (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.10.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA8EF8FC28 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:30:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from westmark (westmark.nagual.nl [192.168.11.22]) by nagual.nl (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/yanta) with ESMTP id m58FV7sp018669 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:31:07 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:30:24 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080608173024.00005cfa@westmark> In-Reply-To: <20080608162456.1c4949bc@fabiankeil.de> References: <1a5a68400806080604ped08ce8p120fc21107e7de81@mail.gmail.com> <20080608162456.1c4949bc@fabiankeil.de> Organization: de nagual X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-pc-solaris2.11) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 192.168.11.35 Subject: Re: 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 15:30:39 -0000 On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:24:56 +0200 Fabian Keil wrote: > On a system with an Athlon 1700+ and only 512 MB of RAM, > receiving snapshots on OpenSolaris renders the GUI pretty > much useless. > Note that the system is below Sun's recommended specifications > for ZFS, though. Things may look differently on more powerful > systems. The -bare- minimum for OpenSolaris is 512MB. That's not only for ZFS. In my experience ZFS on solaris is rock solid. OpenSolaris is not yet ready for production servers though i.m.h.o. nor is nevada_b90 with the ability to boot off ZFS root. Production servers need to be well (no thoroughly) tested ;-) The best stable (production) server with ZFS is solaris-10u5 If you want to boot off ZFS, S10u6 will support that. But these versions too need lots of ram. I think fbsd has a lighter footprint. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++