Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 01:22:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Abdul Waheed <waheed53@yahoo.com> To: "questions@FreeBSD.org" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Free BSD Question? Message-ID: <1398586979.43416.YahooMailNeo@web141002.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
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Dear Sir, I am new in Networking and also new in free BSD.I don't know about free BSD Proxy. I have some question i hope u will help me. I want to implement freeBSD in my network environment.can any body guide me what are the packages i need to install with free BSD.from where i will start this.I don't know I want to use FreeBSD 9.1 for following purpose: 1. As a proxy server 2. As a Router what i need to fulfill these requirement.please guide me from start. Thanks for help Abdul From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 27 12:33:09 2014 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 265008D3 for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 12:33:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from icp-osb-irony-out1.external.iinet.net.au (icp-osb-irony-out1.external.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C448107B for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 12:33:08 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvkGAKP3XFPLpvod/2dsb2JhbABZgwaDOqhJAQEBAQEEAZl2gQkWdIIlAQEEATo/BQsLDQETJQ8FDQsxE4gtAwkHwwcNhngXhVqDXYMKgU9JB4MkgRUElxsBgW+GRz+GBIVVg0MrgS0 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,937,1389715200"; d="scan'208";a="218886762" Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.phoenix) ([203.166.250.29]) by icp-osb-irony-out1.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 27 Apr 2014 20:33:06 +0800 Received: by smtp.phoenix (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6EB23FC7; Sun, 27 Apr 2014 22:33:05 +1000 (EST) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 22:33:05 +1000 From: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> To: Martin Braun <yellowgoldmine@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Newbie question on ZFS on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20140427123305.GA80526@ozzmosis.com> References: <CAFNm86RAjkc=MXtaPjKfZcBcxEg6DuWw4VPxFx4HEpfXCttgUg@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <CAFNm86RAjkc=MXtaPjKfZcBcxEg6DuWw4VPxFx4HEpfXCttgUg@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/>; List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 12:33:09 -0000 On Sat 2014-04-26 06:55:31 UTC+0200, Martin Braun (yellowgoldmine@gmail.com) wrote: > I am currently running a setup using NFS on Linux with 2x4TB, 1x3TB and 1x1TB. > > Now I want to buy 2x2TB and install FreeBSD with ZFS on for raidz. In > that setup I want to use the two old 4TB disks so I get a ZFS with > 4x4TB. > > As I understand in raidz I would then have 12TB of storage and the > last 4TB is for redundancy. > > However, is it possible to use ZFS on 2x2TB for installation and then > later add 2x2TB for the raidz, so I end up with a pool of 12TB and 4TB > for redundancy, or do I need 4x4TB clean disks before I begin? > > In other words.. I want raidz, but I have a lot of data on the two old > 4TB disks, how do I best deal with the situation? I run two FreeBSD servers with a fairly boring 2x1TB mirror ZFS configured on each, so can't really answer you directly, but before I used ZFS on bare metal I experimented with it using a virtual machine and learned how to configure it how I wanted. I'd recommend doing that if possible. In the VM you can use sets of very small (less than 1 GB) virtual drives - the process is the same for much larger physical drives. Also, note that you can enlarge a ZFS pool by adding a higher capacity drive without needing to reformat (nor reboot, for that matter). That's something you can experiment with in a VM too, obviously. Regards Andrew
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