[geeks] In which 3Ware can bite me

[Sevan / Venture37]

nate at portents.com wrote:
>> And forgot to ask ... can anyone here with first-hand experience offer
> 
> Can't offer first-hand experience, but can offer what is probably a good
> suggestion...
> 
>> useful advice on what OSen have:
>> (a) out-of-the-box 9500 RAID support, since I'm clearly not getting any
>> from 3Ware;
> 
> FreeBSD 7.1
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/hardware.html
> 
> No experience, but since it supports the 3ware 9500 series and has ZFS,
> seems like a good place to start:
> 
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS
> 
>> (b) software RAID1 support for mirrored boot;
> 
> Probably FreeBSD (I've done it in Linux, and would be surprised if FreeBSD
> didn't).
> 
>> (c) a decently functional, decently configurable, decently fast, and
>> generally not-brain-damaged nfsd?
> 
> I'd expect FreeBSD to have a good one, but I don't personally know.
> 
>> I'd hoped to use this box to learn both Solaris 10 and ZFS.  It seems
>> clear now that neither of those is happening, but I may as well at least
>> get some use out of the box.
> 
> FreeBSD should get you ZFS anyway.
> 
> - Nate

+1
look at geom for doing software raid, it's dead simple to do & FreeBSD 
is quiet happy to boot off it.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html