On Jul 15, 2013, at 9:23 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, aurfalien wrote: > >> ... thats the question :) >> >> At any rate, I'm building a rather large 100+TB NAS using ZFS. >> >> However for my OS, should I also ZFS or simply gmirror as I've a dedicated >> pair of 256GB SSD drives for it. I didn't ask for SSD sys drives, this >> system just came with em. >> >> This is more of a best practices q. > > ZFS has data integrity checking, gmirror has low RAM overhead. gmirror is, > at present, restricted to MBR partitioning due to metadata conflicts with > GPT, so 2TB is the maximum size. > > Best practices... depends on your use. gmirror for the system leaves more > RAM for ZFS.
Perfect, thanks Warren. Just what I was looking for. - aurf _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
