From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 8 13:48:44 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 AB285106564A for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:48:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glavoie@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f217.google.com (mail-bw0-f217.google.com [209.85.218.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 304EA8FC08 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:48:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glavoie@gmail.com) Received: by bwz17 with SMTP id 17so267866bwz.43 for ; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:48:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=BRyQBa6axhbc2hMmb/XVmDmPlTvfiHjJl7ec++KocBE=; b=EHReOVkboRHS/TeMnE2RM1ldPFD5TgDBN0BbfoU4sEpJlScADAiBpGXSXIf9ysHge5 eLF961yuVWhus9YCT61Ojyjs3aeYnkyuSy1cJ5VuYViICgGZyYxbsgXkBenl8BGQRXbF zB2sDotShtbTb3WHk7LPPIdOyvgCy6w+4/Xi0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=W7bGAq1QnTCHmQyX6X1DDH9ZWNZPeJ3oy/UMWFn748WgLhYV30/oPqKAA+mhXbo/E0 FxEGPPaxrdBOPQwycsYD8NPkUv0eSKuJnDAoGX+G5BqMS6vblkSb3R3OLzqgZ5O5ehV0 rHjVf04EI+1FzDKfrYf6JSipeIK2Lt2zLyUFM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.8.209 with SMTP id 59mr2339161wer.18.1244468922580; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:48:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <139b44430906080019w639541a7g28b5c1240bfc21d5@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A2CD48F.7988.DBFF763@d.forsyth.ru.ac.za> <139b44430906080019w639541a7g28b5c1240bfc21d5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:48:42 -0400 Message-ID: From: Gabriel Lavoie To: Valentin Bud Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: d.forsyth@ru.ac.za, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opinion request about a file server 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: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:48:44 -0000 If you want to use gmirror + gjournal on the root filesystem (/), be sure to use FreeBSD 7.2. A bug prevented the system to boot on unclean shutdown because the replay of the journal took too much time and FreeBSD wanted to mount non-existant (yet) devices. It caused me a lot of trouble when I installed my server and finally I had to leave the root filesystem without gjournal as a workaround. Gabriel 2009/6/8 Valentin Bud : > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM, DA Forsyth wrote: > >> > I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: >> > http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ >> >> Nice, esp when you compile world. =C2=A0 Last year I upgraded our server >> to a Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, Intel DG965 board. =C2=A02GB RAM. =C2=A0Previous= board >> was an ASUS P3 1.1GHz, which now hosts my backup server. =C2=A0Both ran >> FreeBSD file/print/email/web services perfectly. =C2=A0I upgraded to get >> the onboard SATA sockets so I could increase our available disk space >> (4x500GB in RAID5 for data). >> >> However, a nice benefit is that the Core2 will compile world in 1/4 >> the time, and user don't notice the server is 'busy'. >> >> SO, to the original question, yes that motherboard will work just >> fine. =C2=A0 What are you doing for system backups? =C2=A0A single drive= is not >> enough. =C2=A0I recommend a mirror pair at least, and suggest a second b= ox >> for backups. > > > > Hello community, > > =C2=A0Thanks everybody for their thoughts. After reading your posts and s= ome > articles over the > weekend I will take the gmirror(8) + gjournal(8) road. > > =C2=A0The backups will be done offsite because the company which I'm doin= g this > for > is a friend of my boss and we do have a lot of spare space or our servers= . > > thanks once again, > v > > > > -- > network warrior since 2005 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > --=20 Gabriel Lavoie glavoie@gmail.com