Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:42:09 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disk configuration recommendations Message-ID: <4877C5A1.2030904@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <487762FC.2090502@ibctech.ca> References: <487762FC.2090502@ibctech.ca>
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Steve Bertrand wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Do you have any recommendations on how I should proceed? Hardware RAID, > ZFS or GEOM? To answer my own post... After a day of research, I decided upon ZFS. I configured a raidz pool using all four entire disks. I've put /boot on a USB thumb stick which I boot from, which allows me to mount / and the rest of the system directly from the ZFS pool. This prevents me from having to have a UFS slice on one of the disks, or install another hard drive just to run the system from. The idea was essentially copied from how I run my GELI systems. Boot from USB stick that contains the encryption key. Once the system is booted, I take the USB stick with me, which prevents access to the data if the machine is shut down. Steve
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