From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jun 25 18:24:48 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DEE298CE16 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:24:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x234.google.com (mail-ig0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::234]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 17A671192 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:24:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jd1008@gmail.com) Received: by igbiq7 with SMTP id iq7so124846365igb.1 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:24:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=uATzhRd24WMbYp8ZV8FSW1hVqH/LJG02HezsMD1kh1o=; b=UswVeXVR18rFGBpyT5tpN4ydAM4eYhW4e2JcWr/3SHbuoyFTJKWO7b3b2QXIAUeVqv FTbCWnmQGButICY+Mqg9ACbODe1/kr6xEN/Fn8hTygt9AsA09SSWnNcyUrpHGSgtCg9I e0ipMnvhSWLi8gg/rnHYOQ9wpaUwc12SxHjlMwX5fdaWmcBF6HD/aw4QDAKXaGZzJAKR NCI4dEkEQn7xyHRidZbcw0oJ0sqfAMu5G2zALdcawXx2I/pr4j3t0RzdYMlkwJkhgs2S Yoq+6lXpEpg224jGK8uaGy7TBXtJyO7eyIuGLob74gQUSA0KunJxEIy2NPlZhk9qO0XU q4GQ== X-Received: by 10.42.72.132 with SMTP id o4mr46199871icj.20.1435256687400; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:24:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([50.243.6.59]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id c12sm18329726ioj.39.2015.06.25.11.24.46 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:24:46 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <558C4756.1030805@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:24:22 -0600 From: jd1008 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any utils worth installing a GUI on a server for? References: <558B3F60.7060809@sneakertech.com> <558B41A3.1050506@gmail.com> <558B45C1.3040101@sneakertech.com> <558B46D4.90505@gmail.com> <20150625065727.e728118a09a939f408ec8526@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20150625065727.e728118a09a939f408ec8526@sohara.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:24:48 -0000 On 06/24/2015 11:57 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:09:56 -0600 > jd1008 wrote: > >> >> On 06/24/2015 06:05 PM, Quartz wrote: >>>> Yes. >>>> If the storage on the server, then a gui tool >>>> to manage the storage (drive replacement, >>>> raid reconfiguration, drive additions .... etc. >>>> It could make such tasks a lot easier. >>> Well, is there such a thing for zfs? >>> >> :) >> You said for server. >> A raid has nothing to do with the FS type, >> be it ext[N], NTFS, fat32, UFS, HFS+, ...etc. > ZFS combines filesystem and storage management and is best used > directly on drives or partitions and not on top of a RAID controller or > other software RAID, so in this case the FS type does have a lot to do with > the storage management. > I have not used Sun's ZFS, so was not familiar with it. Found an interesting evaluation of it at http://www.zfsbuild.com/2010/05/26/zfs-raid-levels/