Re: ZFS and Storage Systems

2010-10-12 Thread Michal
It would be even better to simply ask them what exact Supermicro hardware (specifically, model numbers) they're using to build these systems. You can see Supermicro mentioned in the of their site, so that's definitely what they're using, even down to the controller card offerings (some

Re: ZFS and Storage Systems

2010-10-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:13:29PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:04:54PM +0200, Greg Byshenk wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:33:49AM +0100, Michal wrote: > > > http://www.icc-usa.com/storage-35-2u.asp. > > > ... > > > You say "using a FreeBSD box I can set u

Re: ZFS and Storage Systems

2010-10-12 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hello, On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:04:54PM +0200, Greg Byshenk wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:33:49AM +0100, Michal wrote: > > http://www.icc-usa.com/storage-35-2u.asp. > > ... > You say "using a FreeBSD box I can set up ZFS over the drives...", which > doesn't make sense, if I undestand the

Re: ZFS and Storage Systems

2010-10-12 Thread Greg Byshenk
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:33:49AM +0100, Michal wrote: > Apologies for the basic question but I just want to make sure. I have > been looking at storage systems like this one > http://www.icc-usa.com/storage-35-2u.asp. I am guessing it would be a > case of sorting the discs out, probably on s

ZFS and Storage Systems

2010-10-12 Thread Michal
Morning, Apologies for the basic question but I just want to make sure. I have been looking at storage systems like this one http://www.icc-usa.com/storage-35-2u.asp. I am guessing it would be a case of sorting the discs out, probably on some GUI or command line for the box it self, then usi