thanks all for the feedback! i definitely learned a lot-- storage isn't
anywhere near my field of expertise, so it's great to get some real examples to
go with all the buzzwords you hear around the watercooler. ;)
i'll probably give one of the raid-z or mirroring setups suggested a try when i
hi,
i just set up snv_54 on an old p4 celeron system and even tho the processor is
crap, it's got 3 7200RPM HDs: 1 80GB and 2 40GBs. so i'm wondering if there is
an optimal way to lay out the ZFS pool(s) to make this old girl as fast as
possible
as it stands now i've got the following
i have a machine with a disk that has some sort of defect and i've found that
if i partition only half of the disk that the machine will still work. i tried
to use 'format' to scan the disk and find the bad blocks, but it didn't work.
so as i don't know where the bad blocks are but i'd still
