From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 31 15:32:34 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA8C31065679 for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 15:32:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oscar.hodgson@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DEA78FC1D for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 15:32:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkvi18 with SMTP id i18so1266333bkv.13 for ; Thu, 31 May 2012 08:32:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=6UAPR9zFIpYpTydWYAW3fw652LpekGlmEb8dvV/tTIo=; b=vIRGDRoydJTqiIPLQXe59oPR8L5a1PrWOUG6O4k1usxzFf2fWYihsAQc+J6jlcERyf y/gOiwaYXOrIFbFF3X72o1WKWXOCLev6go/sPD+LGZlIyF52L2Mmln4fXBjOEjdIbciY En5AjpcHW8lCEtkzEZKRMrVNRd6ZWevRuDhz2tUSBRLOct0nRCJap+wZ29oUnkZcvWnC 0MjizEZ8St6jSI+q1BnTO7oWGrEgfp0x5bstfruzB4JjCecpxo+oCtO24RHs+BEsJJJw gUb0mT+Glvab7ZOOdCy6yOI6yus9lmzxAp8MkxdXOAYLeHsldDFzYNw/khOcBn08n5Xu Gviw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.156.16 with SMTP id u16mr11984766bkw.13.1338478353061; Thu, 31 May 2012 08:32:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.205.64.200 with HTTP; Thu, 31 May 2012 08:32:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 11:32:33 -0400 Message-ID: From: Oscar Hodgson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers? 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: Thu, 31 May 2012 15:32:34 -0000 The subject is pretty much the question. Perhaps there's a better place to be asking this question ... We have (very briefly) discussed the possibility of using FreeBSD pizza boxes as a storage heads direct attached to external JBOD arrays with ZFS. In perusing the list, I haven't stumbled across indications of people actually doing this. External JBODs would be running 24 to 48TB each, roughly. There would be a couple of units. The pizza boxes would be used for computational tasks, and nominally would have 8 cores and 96G+ RAM. Obvious questions are hardware compatibility and stability. I've set up small FreeBSD 9 machines with ZFS roots and simple mirrors for other tasks here, and those have been successful so far. Observations would be appreciated. Oscar.