On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 06:43:25PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all and sorry for this (newbie) question. > > I study FreeBSD (I come from linux) and I'm not sure which filesystem use. > > My situation: install a fileserver (samba) for 3 clients and put it as > gateway/server on internet (ssh, and samba to internal lan). > > I installed FreeBSD with raid 1 following this howto: > > http://www.ateamsystems.com/blog/Installing-FreeBSD-9-gmirror-GPT-partitions-raid-1 > > everything ok! > > I see that use ufs filesystem, now: > > I'd like have less maintenance possible direclty to machine because this > server is far to me 50Km. > > So I can use ssh for default (and extra) maintenance. > > Which filesystem is "better"? After total crash of system (i.e.) or > black-out, ufs can repair it by itself? Or better use ufs+journal? or zfs?
By default, FreeBSD 9.x uses journaled soft-updates now. This will cut down the filesystem check time significantly. A filesystem check will require manual intervention when some kinds of errors are found. ZFS likes to have a lot of memory, and preferably a 64-bit machine. See the tuning guide: https://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide > Motherboard is atom dual core with 2Gb of ram and 2 disks with 2Gb each. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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