On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Frank Middleton <f.middle...@apogeect.com>wrote:
> On 04/ 7/10 03:09 PM, Jason S wrote: > > >> I was actually already planning to get another 4 gigs of ram for the >> box right away anyway, but thank you for mentioning it! As there >> appears to be a couple ways to "skin the cat" here i think i am going >> to try both a 14 spindle RaidZ2 and 2 X 7 RaidZ2 configuration and >> see what the performance is like. I have a fews days of grace before >> i need to have this server ready for duty. >> > > Just curious, what are you planning to boot from? AFAIK you can't > boot ZFS from anything much more complicated than a mirror. > > The OP mentioned OpenSolaris, so can't comment on what can/can't be booted from on that OS. However, FreeBSD 8 can boot from a mirror pool, a raidz1 pool, and a raidz2 pool. So it's not a limitation in ZFS itself. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com
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