From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 18 16:22:04 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 84526106566C for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:22:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailinglist@ucwv.edu) Received: from mail.ucwv.edu (mail.ucwv.edu [216.30.201.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53FB98FC1A for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:22:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ucwv.edu ([172.16.0.15]) by mail.ucwv.edu ([172.16.0.15]) with mapi; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:21:48 -0500 From: mailinglist To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:21:48 -0500 Thread-Topic: FreeBSD File Server with ZFS Thread-Index: AQHKsLZ4QOtytyaLJES0ZCT2I0JYSQ== Message-ID: <93C575B79E9B01449EBBB084032BC570123208B75E@mail.ucwv.edu> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 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 16:22:04 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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! :-)