Hi all, I have been reading ZFS discussion for a while now and I'm planning a small file server (to be used by only a few people). I'm fairly new to Solaris and OpenSolaris, and I'm thinking of using Solaris 10 08/07.
I have a few questions I haven't been able to figure out yet, and would be grateful for any help that anyone can offer. My basic plan is to have a root file system, and several separate disks in a pool for ZFS. 1. For my root file system, I would like to have some redundancy. This file system wouldn't be ZFS, since ZFS boot isn't supported in Solaris 10 at the moment. I was thinking of using a RAID controller with two mirrored disks. Does this make sense? I would like replacing a failed disk to be as easy as possible, and I'm not sure how hard it would be to setup and maintain a software mirror of the root disks. 2. For the data (ZFS pool) disks, I have read that it makes sense to have two disk controllers if doing a mirror, so that at least one disk from each vdev is still online if a controller fails. Should I still have two controllers if I'm doing raidz2? 3. Can anyone recommend a PCI-Express SATA controller that will work with 64-bit x86 Solaris 10? Thanks a lot for any help you can provide, and for taking the time to read this :) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
