From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 8 15:51:39 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 DA796106564A for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 15:51:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f175.google.com (mail-qy0-f175.google.com [209.85.216.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A6C18FC08 for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 15:51:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk11 with SMTP id 11so1453701qyk.13 for ; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 08:51:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=YEv/rUOy3ECSWkSvzpQX7VhXJMweqsFrUuAdzmBY50E=; b=b3fxMe8gaxcUWW+QML43RAB+iTayLH3DjtTUaAoRp/w469lT0UVbWQ5ZKHO4kscPoI MKu7xgYGb1bj3yWG6RRoeZFK9pP4Jrc7NwY30H3RjA4tGok5gIkHFmLfKWaDIcEw5Ago 2+g8yx1GUt1JTmap5Ex5TRwsJacAVjT1syCoY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=TI4dpJbUbP5bVRuzEb5UN5u54SlVL7rHOP9xXgjPVcbGqXc72jNfQsPYRob67T5IDp WzUV0o6kx1rMr6g1yzNeuwsAXil0w1FN7Pj3jOE3gDdU9w51C53idbLqV20rxF5UdcMQ 1j3AR0PMKcyWHw/a7JahldDvZxfCWb5VREs+E= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.183.132 with SMTP id cg4mr6410808qcb.111.1281282698636; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 08:51:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.236.6 with HTTP; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 08:51:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C5ECF42.20509@nagual.nl> References: <4C5E9874.3030606@nagual.nl> <4C5EA29B.7040401@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4C5ECF42.20509@nagual.nl> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:51:38 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Dick Hoogendijk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd questions 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 15:51:40 -0000 On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > 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. You do not *need* amd64, however it would the best choice. I wouldn't even mess around with gmirror. It's great and I love it, but it has some serious drawback's compared to zfs mirroring. One is there is no integrity checking, and two is a full resyc is required on an unclean disconnect. http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror -- Adam Vande More