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Subject: Re: to gmirror or to ZFS
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On Jul 15, 2013, at 9:23 PM, Warren Block wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote:
>=20
>> ... thats the question :)
>>=20
>> At any rate, I'm building a rather large 100+TB NAS using ZFS.
>>=20
>> However for my OS, should I also ZFS or simply gmirror as I've a =
dedicated pair of 256GB SSD drives for it.  I didn't ask for SSD sys =
drives, this system just came with em.
>>=20
>> This is more of a best practices q.
>=20
> ZFS has data integrity checking, gmirror has low RAM overhead.  =
gmirror is, at present, restricted to MBR partitioning due to metadata =
conflicts with GPT, so 2TB is the maximum size.
>=20
> Best practices... depends on your use.  gmirror for the system leaves =
more RAM for ZFS.

Perfect, thanks Warren.

Just what I was looking for.

- aurf