> I'm a fan of FreeNAS for storage at home. While you don't get the "learn > FreeBSD" aspects, it is really easy to use, and for storage generally just > works.
I've heard a lot about FreeNAS but the box I'm looking to plonk the drives into is a bit more multi-function that "only" storage. I use it as a proxy-bridge and do some hobby development on it; nothing heavy, though, but more than "just storage" really. It's been Debian Linux for over a decade, but with the state of ZFS on Linux...I'm willing to take the leap into the BSD realm to get a stable and up-to-date kernel level ZFS. > raidz2 works, and should mitigate the risks of losing the array during > rebuilding if you have to replace a drive. I've never been concerned about > copies=2 - out of curiosity, why is that a concern? And if you have a > reasonably fast cpu, consider enabling compression on some volumes (lzjb if > fast). DI don't bother with it on media-heavy volumes, however, although it > might help if you have lots of RAW pictures. I read an article on RAID and bit rot once (not this specific one, but it covers things nicely) which scared me a bit thinking that my data could very unbeknownst to me be sliently corrupted and useless. From my (very cursory) understanding copies=2 allows ZFS to checksum your files and replace them transparently if one is corrupted; aka the bit rot protector. http://blog.greenclouddatacenter.com/2011/12/13/r-a-i-d-is-b-a-d/ All the tinkering in the VM so far has been with lzjb compression, too, FWIW. I found the script at the below URL which I tweaked a bit to setup a raidz2 pool over 4 drives instead of only installing everything onto a single drive and FreeBSD booted and ran fine so far. https://calomel.org/zfs_freebsd_root_install.html _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.prgmr.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
