damarious25
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Dec 27, 2010
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Since ZFS burst on the scene information on it has grown substantially. It's like a brand new model car with its own tweaks and intricacies, where it might be best to let early adopters work out the kinks...
I was following ZFS in general about two years ago but completely fell off the radar when financing fell through and my dream for a ZFS file server faded. Well it's time and within the next 6 months I'd like to put together a 10TB minimum file server with ZFS with room for future expansion.
Years ago you had OpenSolaris and ZFS was fairly new for OpenIndiana, BSD and Linux distros. I mean, obviously it was available but it was recommended people use Solaris or Indiana. Hardware compatibility was also a critical consideration.
Today it seems there's a flavor of ZFS available for all distros and my question is, is OpenIndiana still at the top of the list for the latest and most stable releases? Are there still incompatibility issues with current hardware? My plan is to use mirrored SSDs for an OS and a cheap HDD controller card with 2TB or 3TB drives ran off the controller with ZFS in charge. Are there controller cards that handle information like a tokenring or do all handle data like a mesh network where you can have all cards sending and receiving data at once?
Thanks for the info. I have more but will save them for later.
-dam
I was following ZFS in general about two years ago but completely fell off the radar when financing fell through and my dream for a ZFS file server faded. Well it's time and within the next 6 months I'd like to put together a 10TB minimum file server with ZFS with room for future expansion.
Years ago you had OpenSolaris and ZFS was fairly new for OpenIndiana, BSD and Linux distros. I mean, obviously it was available but it was recommended people use Solaris or Indiana. Hardware compatibility was also a critical consideration.
Today it seems there's a flavor of ZFS available for all distros and my question is, is OpenIndiana still at the top of the list for the latest and most stable releases? Are there still incompatibility issues with current hardware? My plan is to use mirrored SSDs for an OS and a cheap HDD controller card with 2TB or 3TB drives ran off the controller with ZFS in charge. Are there controller cards that handle information like a tokenring or do all handle data like a mesh network where you can have all cards sending and receiving data at once?
Thanks for the info. I have more but will save them for later.
-dam