zfs discuss - Oct 2007 - Home fileserver with solaris 10 and zfs

hi

I am currently running a linux box as my fileserver at home.
It''s got eight 250 gig sata2 drives connected to two sata pci
controllers and configured as one big raid5 with linux software raid.
Linux is (and solaris will be) installed on two separate mirrored disks. 

I''ve been playing around with solaris 10 and zfs at work and
I''m pretty exited about it and now I''d like to migrate my
fileserver to solaris and zfs.

Now I just wanted to hear your opinion on how to configure these eight disks.
Should I use raidz or raidz2 and how many pools, block size and so on?

Most of my files are between 200 and 800 megs and a total of 100.000 files.

The new solaris box will have 2 gigs of mem and a AMD dualcore cpu around 2ghz.

Any suggestions, tips or experiences ?

Thanks in advance

regards
 
 
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Sandro wrote:
> hi
>
> I am currently running a linux box as my fileserver at home.
> It''s got eight 250 gig sata2 drives connected to two sata pci
controllers and configured as one big raid5 with linux software raid.
> Linux is (and solaris will be) installed on two separate mirrored disks. 
>
> I''ve been playing around with solaris 10 and zfs at work and
I''m pretty exited about it and now I''d like to migrate my
fileserver to solaris and zfs.
>
> Now I just wanted to hear your opinion on how to configure these eight
disks. Should I use raidz or raidz2 and how many pools, block size and so on?
>
> Most of my files are between 200 and 800 megs and a total of 100.000 files.
>
> The new solaris box will have 2 gigs of mem and a AMD dualcore cpu around
2ghz.
>
> Any suggestions, tips or experiences ?
>
>   
Have a look back the the many similar threads to this in this list, the
general answer is "it depends".  There are many possibilities with 8
drives, each offering different performance/reliability trade offs.

Ian