Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:51:38 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> Cc: freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: zfs question Message-ID: <AANLkTi=6B1ho0vP1ccVwwTXvcuyr8w8t5_8Whj42D8R2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C5ECF42.20509@nagual.nl> References: <4C5E9874.3030606@nagual.nl> <4C5EA29B.7040401@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4C5ECF42.20509@nagual.nl>
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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
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