Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:44:01 +0000 From: Hugo Silva <hugo@barafranca.com> To: John Klimek <jklimek@gmail.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How safe is ZFS to use for a home user? Message-ID: <476C6BE1.3000403@barafranca.com> In-Reply-To: <c68396460712211201x25e83575w419170b64784cbf3@mail.gmail.com> References: <c68396460712211201x25e83575w419170b64784cbf3@mail.gmail.com>
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John Klimek wrote: > I'm looking to setup a file server using RAID 5 (or the equivilant > RAID-Z) and I'm interested in using ZFS. > > It looks like my primary options are Solaris or FreeBSD and since I'm > beginning to really dislike Solaris I'm leaning towards using FreeBSD > however I've heard that there are some issues with ZFS on FreeBSD > specifically regarding some "kmap_mem" or something like that. > > Can anybody tell me if ZFS is safe to use for home users? I'm just > looking to setup RAID-Z with 3x 300 GB and another pool for 1x80GB (I > guess). > > Thanks for any help! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Pretty safe, I've been using it on my workstation for several months, and on my new home file server for a month. I have a mirror of 2 disks on the workstation and 2 mirrors of 2 disks on the fileserver. Regards, Hugo
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