Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 11:56:18 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Valentin Bud <valentin.bud@gmail.com> Cc: Howard Jones <howard.jones@network-i.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Graeme Dargie <arab@tangerine-army.co.uk> Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Software RAID Message-ID: <20090525165618.GB8441@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> In-Reply-To: <139b44430905250937u3410ac24g1f0b9f89a0d51f22@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A1AA3DC.5020300@network-i.net> <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F7897392956C7@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl> <139b44430905250937u3410ac24g1f0b9f89a0d51f22@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 07:37:59PM +0300, Valentin Bud wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Graeme Dargie <arab@tangerine-army.co.uk>wrote: > > > Can anyone with experience of software RAID point me in the right > > direction please? I've used gmirror before with no trouble, but nothing > > fancier. [76 lines trimmed] > I have been using ZFS for about half an year. I just have mirroring > with 2 drives. Never had a problem with it. I would go with ZFS in the > future too. And yes the server is in production and it has all sort of > important data. I have looked at ZFS recently. Appears to be a memory hog, needs about 1 GB especially if large file transfers may occur over gigabit ethernet to/from other machines. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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