From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 8 15:37:34 2010 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 EE7381065673 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 15:37:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from mail.nagual.nl (cc535223-a.groni1.gr.home.nl [82.73.72.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 702E88FC19 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 15:37:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.11.34] [192.168.11.34] by midgard (Axigen) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 0A2086; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:29:41 +0200 Message-ID: <4C5ECF42.20509@nagual.nl> Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 17:37:38 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd questions References: <4C5E9874.3030606@nagual.nl> <4C5EA29B.7040401@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4C5EA29B.7040401@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AxigenSpam-Level: 4 Subject: Re: zfs question 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 Aug 2010 15:37:35 -0000 On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Yes. It works very well. > On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to > speak) which will work fine for most purposes. One other thing comes to mind. I want a very robus, fast rockl solid *server* It will be a file- email and webserver mostly. Instead of using two ZFS mirrors I could also go for gmirror (I'm not familiar with it, but it's been around for quite some time so it should be very stable). I don't get the data integrity that way, but my files would be safe, no? Also, using gmirror I could use "normal" BSD UFS filesystems and normal swap files devided across all disks? Or am I wrong, thinking this way. I'm not into fancy stuff; it has to be robust, fast and safe.