[zfs-discuss] newbie, WAS: Re: SSD best practices

2010-04-19 Thread Michael DeMan (OA)
By the way, I would like to chip in about how informative this thread has been, at least for me, despite (and actually because of) the strong opinions on some of the posts about the issues involved. >From what I gather, there is still an interesting failure possibility with >ZFS, although prob

Re: [zfs-discuss] newbie, WAS: Re: SSD best practices

2010-04-19 Thread Michael DeMan
In all honesty, I haven't done much at sysadmin level with Solaris since it was SunOS 5.2. I found ZFS after becoming concerned with reliability of traditional RAID5 and RAID6 systems once drives exceeded 500GB. I have a few months running ZFS on FreeBSD lately on a test/augmentation basis wit

Re: [zfs-discuss] newbie, WAS: Re: SSD best practices

2010-04-19 Thread Khyron
I would advise getting familiar with the basic terminology and vocabulary of ZFS first. Start with the Solaris 10 ZFS Administration Guide. It's a bit more complete for a newbie. http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461?l=en You can then move on to the Best Practices Guide, Configuration Guide

[zfs-discuss] newbie, WAS: Re: SSD best practices

2010-04-19 Thread Michael DeMan
Also, pardon my typos, and my lack of re-titling my subject to note that it is a fork from the original topic. Corrections in text that I noticed after finally sorting out getting on the mailing list are below... On Apr 19, 2010, at 3:26 AM, Michael DeMan wrote: > By the way, > > I would like