Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:52:30 +0100 From: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl>, freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: zfs question Message-ID: <AANLkTinSTwHJvSsJ_TgfjX7ubJNdee4v3hLzXAeC3R=%2B@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=6B1ho0vP1ccVwwTXvcuyr8w8t5_8Whj42D8R2@mail.gmail.com> References: <4C5E9874.3030606@nagual.nl> <4C5EA29B.7040401@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4C5ECF42.20509@nagual.nl> <AANLkTi=6B1ho0vP1ccVwwTXvcuyr8w8t5_8Whj42D8R2@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8 August 2010 16:51, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> wrote: > > > On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > >> Yes. It works very well. > >> On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to > >> speak) which will work fine for most purposes. > >> > > One other thing comes to mind. I want a very robus, fast rockl solid > > *server* > > It will be a file- email and webserver mostly. > > > > Instead of using two ZFS mirrors I could also go for gmirror (I'm not > > familiar with it, but it's been around for quite some time so it should > be > > very stable). I don't get the data integrity that way, but my files would > be > > safe, no? > > > > Also, using gmirror I could use "normal" BSD UFS filesystems and normal > > swap files devided across all disks? > > Or am I wrong, thinking this way. > > > > I'm not into fancy stuff; it has to be robust, fast and safe. > > > You do not *need* amd64, however it would the best choice. I wouldn't even > mess around with gmirror. It's great and I love it, but it has some > serious > drawback's compared to zfs mirroring. One is there is no integrity > checking, and two is a full resyc is required on an unclean disconnect. > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/Mirror > > -- > Adam Vande More > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > you could add a gjournal layer in there as well for better data integratity. I think you can do softupdates + journal as well now although I have never used it
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