I have been searching this forum and just about every ZFS document i can find trying to find the answer to my questions. But i believe the answer i am looking for is not going to be documented and is probably best learned from experience.
This is my first time playing around with open solaris and ZFS. I am in the midst of replacing my home based filed server. This server hosts all of my media files from MP3's to Blue Ray ISO's. I stream media from this file server to several media players throughout my house. The server consists of a Supermicro X6DHE-XG2 motherboard, 2 X 2.8ghz xeon processors, 4 gigs of ram and 2 Supermicro SAT2MV8 controllers. I have 14 1TB hitachi hard drives connected to the controllers. My initial thought was to just create a single 14 drive RaidZ2 pool, but i have read over and over again that i should be limiting each array to a max of 9 drives. So then i would end up with 2 X 7 drive RaidZ arrays. To keep the pool size at 12TB i would have to give up my extra parity drive going to this 2 array setup and it is concerning as i have no room for hot spares in this system. So in my mind i am left with only one other choice and this is going to 2XRaidZ2 pools and loosing an additional 2 TB so i am left with a 10TB ZFS pool. So my big question is given that i am working with 4mb - 50gb files is going with 14 spindles going incur a huge performance hit? I was hoping to be able to saturate a single GigE link with this setup, but i am concerned the single large array wont let me achieve this. aaaahhhhhh, decisions, decisions.... Any advice would be greatly appreciated. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
