fileserver questions

2008-08-28 Thread Michael John Copeland
Hello All, I am building a fileserver to store ripped movies, cds, etc on, to be used also as a home media center connected to tv. i'm going to use 1TB drives and was wondering if i should stick with ufs, or migrate to zfs. i've read about the zfs many times on the freebsd wiki, and it seems l

Re: fileserver questions

2008-08-28 Thread craig001
> Hello All, > I am building a fileserver to store ripped movies, cds, etc on, to be > used also as a home media center connected to tv. i'm going to use 1TB > drives and was wondering if i should stick with ufs, or migrate to zfs. > i've read about the zfs many times on the freebsd wiki, and it se

Re: fileserver questions

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello All, I am building a fileserver to store ripped movies, cds, etc on, to be used also as a home media center connected to tv. i'm going to use 1TB drives and UFS works perfect on my 6*500GB gstriped volume. RAID5 will be OK but for large files, for small files writes will be suboptimal (bu

Re: fileserver questions

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I personally would consider zfs on freeBSD as unstable/experimental on everything apart from AMD64's with loads of RAM to spare. I have tried tuning for large files UFS offers near-raw performance. it can't be much better. it can be less efficient on concurrent operations because MAXBSIZE is