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Date:      Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:04:25 -0300
From:      Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi.sergio@gmail.com>
To:        Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: New FreeBSD8.2 server install.
Message-ID:  <1308593065.77579.4.camel@z6000.lenzicasa>
In-Reply-To: <20110620170115.GA25684@gmail.com>
References:  <20110620170115.GA25684@gmail.com>

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Em Seg, 2011-06-20 às 13:01 -0400, Chris Brennan escreveu:

> I've got a new machine to replace the one that died on me a few weeks 
> ago and since then, I've collected and cataloged my drives of various 
> sizes and I am curious if I am able to do something like a poor-mans 
> LVM, I thought about gmirror but that might be tricky, since I would 
> have to slice drives up according to the smallest drive I have (current 
> an unmarked 40GB drive). Is there a way within FreeBSD to concatenate 
> the drives into a software raid0 array?

Hello,

I prefer ZFS,  it is reliable, fast, and full of features,
in a FreeBSD 8.2 AMD64 it rocks...

I use to partition the disk  using a small ufs partition (4Gb)
follow 4Gb swap, and the rest of the disk for ZFS,
Once created the zfs , I can mount the zfs as rootfs, and than
define whatever I need after, as mirror, partitions, snapshots... and so
on
the system must have 4G (or more) of memory, and is is really fast..

I am very satisfied with the system (I have installed about 60 already,
with this
configuration)...


Sergio



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