Yep! BTW, if you REALLY want to get the best out of the ZFS system, front end it with 3 SSD's. A mirrored pair for a write cache (ZIL) (can be small. I've never seen mine go over a 1G) and a big one for read cache (Cache) (As big as you can afford). Amazing the difference a little buffering will make!
---- Julian On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Bryan Seitz <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/30/12 10:09 AM, Julian Zottl wrote: >> >> I know the topic is ready built NAS's, but if you all want to build >> something yourselves, I've built a couple of NAS's/SAN's with COTS >> hardware. For OS's I've used OpenFiler(7/10), FreeNAS(7/10), and >> Nexenta(8/10). For hardware, everything from 4 to 24 drive SAS >> controllers. These are mostly to support ESX servers through iSCSI >> connections, but FreeNAS/Nexenta supports CIFS/NFS/FTP/RSYNC/WebDAV >> too. >> >> > > Also note that the linux ZFS native project is quite mature now so you no > longer have to > use a Solaris variant or FreeBSD to get ZFS support. Ubuntu + zfs + iscsi > is quite easy to setup > as well. >
