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    What's your backup strategy?

    I occasionally put all my important files on a USB key stick, and then go drop it in some random heavily-traveled area. A mall, a park, whatever. My assumption being at least some % of them will end up plugged into some guy's computer and uploaded to the internet in some sort of "look at all...
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    To FreeNAS or not to FreeNAS?

    My first reaction was 'probably a failing component, like a slowly dying disk', but while that could be the case, when I got to the end and read your stats my reaction was 'not nearly enough RAM'.
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    To FreeNAS or not to FreeNAS?

    No, not bashing on them. Especially ZFS - it's perfectly fine on FreeBSD and illumos-based OS. It's just ZoL I'm a little leery on, still. That's less, btw, to do with ZFS itself or even ZoL, and more to do with unfinished or unavailable features -- DTrace key amongst them. I come from the...
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    To FreeNAS or not to FreeNAS?

    This is not meant to be snarky, though I can't come up with a way for it not to sound that way. Are we at the point where BTRFS is stable enough that it's a plus to say a storage appliance for any form of production use, including home use, is utilizing it? I should add I still don't approve of...
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    Thin Provisioning + Virtualization

    I'm glad rsq already brought it up. If what you have is a bunch of nearly or entirely homogeneous VM's, especially if they're not permanent, or are semi-permanent in that you can replace them when doing major upgrades to the OS, etc, and you either do not need HA storage or your total number of...
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    ZFS/ESXi All-In-One - SuperMicro Motherboard Questions

    What is the state of VGA pass-thru on VMware? Wouldn't you rather have a box that could potentially handle high-end gaming if the desire hits? Last I checked was awhile ago, but at that point only open-source Xen, on very specific hardware, could handle a modern video card being passed through...
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    Best drives for RAIDZ (TLER, URE, cost, etc.)

    I disagree with him. You're running ZFS. In RAID. It has another copy of the data. Why would you ever want to let the drive crunch away trying for more than 7-8 seconds to recover a block of data (which after all that time it may very well still fail to manage to read) when you've got another...
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    ZFS boot/zil/l2arc all off of one SSD?

    Effectively, yes. Yes. More so, if going defaults, as your zvol will have a significantly lower average block size than your NFS share. Good, then you should be in good shape, assuming you're OK with having a period of disruption and controlled chaos after a power loss (which you may...
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    ZFS boot/zil/l2arc all off of one SSD?

    No, just the opposite, which is why people think iSCSI is faster. Out of the box on illumos derivatives I'm aware of, COMSTAR enables "Write Back Cache" by default on LU's. This "feature" basically says: unless the client calls for synchronous writes, I will assume asynchronous writes. This...
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    ZFS boot/zil/l2arc all off of one SSD?

    I find it somewhat concerning that the prevailing wisdom seems to be you only need a slog device for NFS, or that only with NFS does it become a necessity. It is just as necessary on iSCSI. If you don't think that, then you've been running iSCSI with writeback cache enabled, and you're not...
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    ZFS: mix SATA and USB disks?

    Do you enjoy tragedy?
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    ZFS: bringing a disk online in an unavailable pool

    New OS install with latest ZFS bits - try to follow instructions in Serverfault reply. Also to answer your second question, no, absolutely no way. If you cannot 'fool' the system into re-importing the pool with the old drive, you're not getting it back through any non-Herculean methods. Which...
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    Cheapest/easiest way to store archived data in the cloud? 5TB and slowly growing

    My $0.02 is I wouldn't trust critical backups to any company running a solution that is oversubscribing. That's going to be any company offering a flat fee for 'unlimited' or outrageous amounts of space. They're banking on their income outdoing their expenditures primarily through a large...
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    Which OS for home ZFS system?

    Yes, most the illumos derivs also have 'beadm' or equivalence. The ability to upgrade into a new snapshot/clone and boot from it, and roll back out of it if there's a problem, is very, very handy in production environments. I should also correct one comment in my post -- for NFSv3, they're all...
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    Which OS for home ZFS system?

    If you're planning on making use primarily of NFS, I find FreeBSD, Linux, or an illumos derivative all usable. Not equally usable, but all reasonable. If you're planning on making major use of CIFS/SMB, and don't need SMB2.1 or higher, illumos derivatives have the advantage. If you're planning...
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