From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 22 02:01:59 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7018C16A418 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:01:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hugo@barafranca.com) Received: from mail.barafranca.com (mail.barafranca.com [67.19.101.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37AE813C458 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:01:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hugo@barafranca.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.barafranca.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A855C382E; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:51:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.barafranca.com ([67.19.101.164]) by localhost (mail.barafranca.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 51760-08; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:51:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nexus.bsdlan.org (a213-22-38-76.cpe.netcabo.pt [213.22.38.76]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.barafranca.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F84C50E4; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:51:09 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <476C6BE1.3000403@barafranca.com> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:44:01 +0000 From: Hugo Silva User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070816) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Klimek , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at barafranca.com X-Spam-Status: No, score=0 tagged_above=-1 required=4 tests=[none] X-Spam-Score: 0 X-Spam-Level: Cc: Subject: Re: How safe is ZFS to use for a home user? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:01:59 -0000 John Klimek wrote: > I'm looking to setup a file server using RAID 5 (or the equivilant > RAID-Z) and I'm interested in using ZFS. > > It looks like my primary options are Solaris or FreeBSD and since I'm > beginning to really dislike Solaris I'm leaning towards using FreeBSD > however I've heard that there are some issues with ZFS on FreeBSD > specifically regarding some "kmap_mem" or something like that. > > Can anybody tell me if ZFS is safe to use for home users? I'm just > looking to setup RAID-Z with 3x 300 GB and another pool for 1x80GB (I > guess). > > Thanks for any help! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Pretty safe, I've been using it on my workstation for several months, and on my new home file server for a month. I have a mirror of 2 disks on the workstation and 2 mirrors of 2 disks on the fileserver. Regards, Hugo