From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 8 16:52:31 2010 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 739C6106567E for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 16:52:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f182.google.com (mail-qy0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C11E8FC1C for ; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 16:52:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk32 with SMTP id 32so8863604qyk.13 for ; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:52:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=KXJODOPQ3kucW3gf+FgfHRlF7ca3DdicWWl+gpAa9Mw=; b=TWMgqVTpahA8KrVcczSUYopCXZ2opUpVihLcpIyp8/TtzxM0HI14CrMnqoRxHl8u0z /nhQwFYQmD+KfX4XdRroA8rjqIIDhrj0BLtE/YyGxveTGd3krrNVdhkNmdoJtDADpF5N OhxzZqIElYuM3/ZgLOEraGbrLnnArawPqJPsU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=oPS21pjetbtfPhZwP/bL4Rze9asv+6ujUssZEyO33uEwWq/n4hVvdFPblfXBoznJJq YcfOyl9WfPNX+FzZtcNGIEvRGL2EhpfY2uGOhWWZH89mYz/ewfjVG5qdZREoAxk4LP8W mTP0xn5vjbSk5AA+FhfG9s2s4XI3a8KvT6pcI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.63.220 with SMTP id c28mr7717961qai.360.1281286350157; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.250.140 with HTTP; Sun, 8 Aug 2010 09:52:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4C5E9874.3030606@nagual.nl> <4C5EA29B.7040401@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4C5ECF42.20509@nagual.nl> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:52:30 +0100 Message-ID: From: krad To: Adam Vande More Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Dick Hoogendijk , freebsd questions Subject: Re: zfs question 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: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:52:34 -0000 On 8 August 2010 16:51, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijk 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