On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 11:18:23PM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 06:02:24PM -0700, Brandon High wrote:
> > Here's the component list that I'm planning to use right now:
> > http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?Source=MSWD&WishListNumber=7739092
>
> this l
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 1:15 AM, Fajar A. Nugraha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Another alternative is to use an IDE to Compact Flash adapter, and
>> boot off of flash.
>
> Just curious, what will that flash contain?
> e.g. will it be similar to linux's /boot, or will it contain the full
> solaris
It was posted in the CIFS forum a couple of days ago:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=214
Thread: HEADS-UP: Please skip snv_93 if you use CIFS server:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=65996&tstart=0
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Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
> Brandon High wrote:
>> Another alternative is to use an IDE to Compact Flash adapter, and
>> boot off of flash.
> Just curious, what will that flash contain?
> e.g. will it be similar to linux's /boot, or will it contain the full
> solaris root?
> How do you manage redund
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:47:26AM -0700, Ross wrote:
> My recommendation: buy a small, cheap 2.5" SATA hard drive (or 1.8" SSD) and
> use that as your boot volume, I'd even bolt it to the side of your case if
> you have to. Then use the whole of your three large disks as a raid-z set.
Yup, I'
Fajar A. Nugraha wrote:
>> If you have enough memory (say 4gb) you probably won't need swap. I
>> believe swap can live in a ZFS pool now too, so you won't necesarily
>> need another slice. You'll just have RAID-Z protected swap.
>>
> Really? I think solaris still needs non-zfs swap for default
Brandon High wrote:
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Florin Iucha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The question is, how should I partition the drives, and what tuning
parameters should I use for the pools and file systems? From reading
the best practices guides [1], [2], it seems that I cannot have
My recommendation: buy a small, cheap 2.5" SATA hard drive (or 1.8" SSD) and
use that as your boot volume, I'd even bolt it to the side of your case if you
have to. Then use the whole of your three large disks as a raid-z set.
If I were in your shoes I would also have bought 4 drives for ZFS i
Florin Iucha wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:42:37PM -0700, Bohdan Tashchuk wrote:
>>> I cannot use OpenSolaris 2008.05 since it does not
>>> recognize the SATA disks attached to the southbridge.
>>> A fix for this problem went into build 93.
>> Which forum/mailing list discusses SATA issues li
Florin Iucha wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:42:37PM -0700, Bohdan Tashchuk wrote:
>
>>> I cannot use OpenSolaris 2008.05 since it does not
>>> recognize the SATA disks attached to the southbridge.
>>> A fix for this problem went into build 93.
>>>
>> Which forum/mailing list discusse
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 06:02:24PM -0700, Brandon High wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Florin Iucha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The reason for using a whole disk is that ZFS will turn on the drive's
> cache. When using slices, the cache is normally disabled. If all
> slices are using ZFS,
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 08:42:37PM -0700, Bohdan Tashchuk wrote:
> > I cannot use OpenSolaris 2008.05 since it does not
> > recognize the SATA disks attached to the southbridge.
> > A fix for this problem went into build 93.
>
> Which forum/mailing list discusses SATA issues like the above?
#open
Thank you for starting this thread. I hope you get some good feedback.
Your questions are quite frequently asked in this forum, but I'm very
interested in the topic. Anway, the "best" answer varies from month
to month. So I hope you get some good feedback.
> I cannot use OpenSolaris 2008.05 since
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Florin Iucha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The question is, how should I partition the drives, and what tuning
> parameters should I use for the pools and file systems? From reading
> the best practices guides [1], [2], it seems that I cannot have the
> root file sys
Hello,
I plan to use (Open)Solaris for a home file server. I wanted cool and
quiet hardware, so I picked a mini-atx motherboard and case, an AMD64
CPU and 4 GB of RAM. My case has room for three hard drives and I
have chosen 3x WD 750 Green Power hard drives. The file server will
serve out via
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