Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:21:48 -0500 From: mailinglist <mailinglist@ucwv.edu> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS Message-ID: <93C575B79E9B01449EBBB084032BC570123208B75E@mail.ucwv.edu>
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Does your old P4 support 64-bit operation? Does it have 2GB RAM or more? I=
f not, then you might want to reconsider using ZFS. It's not that it won't=
or can't be made to work given those limitations, but you'll find it hard =
work to get it running stably and performing well.
UFS on the other hand will work just fine on 32bit systems and smaller and =
older machines. (The limitation with UFS is a maximum 2TB filesystem size,=
but I suspect this will not cause you any practical
difficulties.)
Cheers,
Matthew
I'm not sure if my box supports 64 bit OSes or not, I'll have to look into =
that. I know for a fact it doesnt have 3+ GB of RAM. At most it'll have 2=
GB....at least RAM for that old beast should be cheap! :-)
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