[rescue] FreeBSD and ZFS, was Re: 3ware raid

[Richard Zawaski]

If you want all the coolness that ZFS provides then use OpenSolaris which supports all the features of the latest ZFS version, like dedup, etc. FreeBSD works fine for ZFS but you may find the performance a bit lacking. Also, ZFS works best with a JBOD setup.



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From: Shawn Wallbridge <swallbridge at gmail.com>
To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] FreeBSD and ZFS, was Re: 3ware raid

Are you thinking of running zfs on drives connected to a 3 ware controller?
I heard that is a really bad idea, but that was for solaris, which wanted
direct access to the drives. Not sure if fbsd is the same.

Shawn
On Jul 27, 2011 1:35 PM, "Zachary Giles" <zgiles at gmail.com> wrote:
> This guy here has an awesome run-down of a few cheap and excellent
> controllers: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=10
>
> I'm thinking about getting the marvel one, which is supermicro, Is
> that the one you're referring to? I see them for about $95 on newegg:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009
>
> Basically a tossup of buying 4 of those or running FreeBSD instead. Eh..
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Shawn Wallbridge <swallbridge at gmail.com>
wrote:
>> If your looking for different controllers for solaris, supermicro makes
an 8
>> port controller for $85 that works out of the box with solaris.
>>
>> Shawn
>> On Jul 27, 2011 1:22 PM, "Zachary Giles" <zgiles at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Shawn, Are you on FreeBSD 7 or 8 for your production system?
>>>
>>> I'm basically weighing if I should keep my 9500S-8 controllers and
>>> force myself to switch my fileserver(s) to FreeBSD or buy new
>>> controllers so I can use Solaris (still/again)
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Steve Jones <smj+rescue at crash.com>
>> wrote:
>>>> vv--- Uhm, it's the 27th...
>>>> On 07/26/2011 12:18 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I've got a 3ware 9500S in an older Supermicro 1U [...]
>>>>
>>>> Just to be clear - ZFS under FreeBSD had nothing to do with my
previous,
>>>> "date-challenged" message. :^{ Apologies to anybody who's mail reader
>>>> sorted things accordingly...
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