From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 11 20:02:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82377106566B for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:02:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C69C8FC1A for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:02:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LXLHk-0006E8-Qh for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:02:17 +0000 Received: from 85.48.193.152 ([85.48.193.152]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:02:16 +0000 Received: from matiassurdi by 85.48.193.152 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:02:16 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Matias Surdi Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:02:03 +0100 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <499311AC.1060904@poughkeepsieschools.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.48.193.152 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) In-Reply-To: <499311AC.1060904@poughkeepsieschools.org> Sender: news Subject: Re: zfs raid and/or hardware raid.. 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: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:02:17 -0000 If your are just going to "play with it", the play as much as you want with ZFS. But, if you are going to setup something that will have to go on production some day, at least at this moment i wouldn't recommend you ZFS. I've used it for a backup server, and due to power failures in the building, all the times the energy went out the pool got corrupted, the las one was completely unrecoverable.I ended up using gconcat/gstripe and so on, and despite a couple more power failures, just once I've had to run fsck.Everything works (and "feels") much more solid now. Just my opinion. B. Cook wrote: > I have a dimension 9150 that I am going to put amd64 freebsd on to play > with. > > It has Intel ICH7 SATA300 on it, in the bios it says it can do raid. > > I'm assuming that would be a hardware raid.. > > Would I be better off just using two disks and mirror them in software > raid (zpool) or using the Intel hardware-ish raid and then zfs the raid? > > box has 2G of ram, and a pair of 250G sata 300 drives. > > clues appreciated. > _______________________________________________ > 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" >