Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:21:26 +0100 From: "$witch" <a.spinella@rfc1925.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ZFS over RAID6 Message-ID: <4D52B0F6.9000006@rfc1925.net>
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hi, having made a considerable amount of pre-research am now asking your mind about my goal. enviroment : a FreeBSD (ranging from 6.x to 8.1) web-farm (a couple of links and a dozen of devices/servers) goal : share (in R/W) some dirs between various hosts via NFS; such dirs must be in something that is error-proof. considerations : at lower level feel RAID6 meet my requirements (i love something that can face a double hw fault) while at upper level ZFS looks very nice so am looking for such a combination. status : as now had found some ADPTEC, ARECA and 3WARE adapters that look reasonable but controller is not all; i need also 8 (+ 2 spare) HDs and a case where to keep them. so had extended research to 8HD cases with RAID6 capabilities. again a few manufacturer seem to have suitable boxes as **MGBurly8VRe ( http://www.burlystorage.com/ccp0-prodshow/MGBurly8VRe.html ) and ARC-5040 ( http://www.areca.com.tw/products/esatafirewire800iscsiaoeusb.htm ) questions : a) do you feel that combination NFS over ZFS over RAID6 a good choice or just a complicated exercise leading nowhere? b) do you feel suitable the listed hw ? [ one | both | none ] c) do you know something "better" that lead to an overall expense not bigger than 2.5 K euro? (had seen some ADAPTEC over 4K euro that seem nice but expensive for a test) thank you Alessandro
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