From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 18 01:16:58 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 9A4651065670 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:16:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kraduk@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f219.google.com (mail-fx0-f219.google.com [209.85.220.219]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C2208FC1B for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:16:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm19 with SMTP id 19so827125fxm.3 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:16:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=s4/oykRWf4ikloNd+RG5ogzPS4oZkQJMd8YQ3tH8GRo=; b=je5DCO3uMoa93+2LGQHEg1daGANxDFKpZuk2zSogC6W1tNhVBLm1AOTEFKwXp1VPWx SjVFKEEJtQjY2BxUkmDiKJHZBys0OfeaOGekcKaLyRnFJ56rdWcV84b/ix92KgD/Anrf DdQMbtB7QLFMud2m+Xd1yKUZFNvNwLyIfbJTU= 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=IxiztROy0EN2QNdSgqagBBZR33+zpwONm4l5RnaqtQLci37fGHsQcYCndZg8rbZev3 wkq5CjukYKmqDmq0Qfs0I8avJ0aXkL9GmdXNvDLfVSZPYbu89Y9/GUevwy3tk89SacRS dtkHx2gLombYGYH1QBAVzK+FK6x7AibrsZIDU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.193.74 with SMTP id h10mr979168hbi.163.1266455816839; Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:16:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <93C575B79E9B01449EBBB084032BC570123208B75C@mail.ucwv.edu> References: <93C575B79E9B01449EBBB084032BC570123208B75C@mail.ucwv.edu> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:16:56 +0000 Message-ID: From: krad To: mailinglist Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS 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: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:16:58 -0000 On 18 February 2010 00:11, mailinglist wrote: > I've got an old P4 desktop computer running in the basement with a 1 TB > external USB drive connected to that I use as a file server. That PC is > running XP. It has recently become infected with some sort of virus. I'd > like to replace it with FreeBSD running ZFS + Samba (I need to access it > from a OS X machine and a Windows 7 box). > > > > 1) Will FreeBSD be able to detect and use my TB hard drive as ZFS disk? > Right now it is only a single disk, but later on I'll and a second disk and > setup a mirror. Even as a single disk, the checksumming ability would be > nice. > > Should be fine > > > 2)Assume I get everything setup in regards to step 1 and my OS disk dies. > How do I go about importing the ZFS external disk into another FreeBSD > installation? > > > > Just make sure you plug it into a freebsd v 7.2+ (preferably 8+) and zpool import it with a -f flag On another point make sure your p4 has plenty of ram preferably 4gb, but at least 2 > Thanks for all of the help! > _______________________________________________ > 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" >