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From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To: Valentin Bud <valentin.bud@gmail.com>
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Cc: Howard Jones <howard.jones@network-i.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org,
	Graeme Dargie <arab@tangerine-army.co.uk>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Software RAID
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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 07:37:59PM +0300, Valentin Bud wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Graeme Dargie <arab@tangerine-army.co.uk>wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone with experience of software RAID point me in the right
> > direction please? I've used gmirror before with no trouble, but nothing
> > fancier.

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> I have been using ZFS for about half an year. I just have mirroring
> with 2 drives. Never had a problem with it. I would go with ZFS in the
> future too. And yes the server is in production and it has all sort of
> important data.

I have looked at ZFS recently. Appears to be a memory hog, needs about 1
GB especially if large file transfers may occur over gigabit ethernet
to/from other machines.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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