From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 12 15:03:10 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7C06106564A for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:03:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michal@sharescope.co.uk) Received: from mail1.sharescope.co.uk (mail1.ionic.co.uk [85.159.80.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0A78FC1D for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:03:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.sharescope.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27733FC0AD for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:03:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sharescope.co.uk Received: from mail1.sharescope.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail1.sharescope.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mCpGf3mTk9hH for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:02:43 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.2.50] (unknown [85.159.85.2]) (Authenticated sender: chris@sharescope.co.uk) by mail1.sharescope.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3EC22FC0AE for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:02:43 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4CB47881.7050808@sharescope.co.uk> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:02:25 +0100 From: Michal User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: ZFS and Storage Systems X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:03:10 -0000 > It would be even better to simply ask them what exact Supermicro > hardware (specifically, model numbers) they're using to build these > systems. You can see Supermicro mentioned in the of their site, > so that's definitely what they're using, even down to the controller > card offerings (some of which (Marvell) are known to behave oddly on > FreeBSD (yes there are success stories, but there are also follow-up > horror stories) -- consider yourself warned). > I think the best option is to just build it your self using similar components which I have looked at before. My ideal is build a system where you can extend the storage easily by adding another box instead of either replacing the HDD's with bigger HDD's or having multiple targets for the data. One target whose storage can be expanded by simply adding another box. However, that is harder in practice to work out