Comments on: OpenSolaris vs FreeBSD .. .which do I go for? http://www.relevancefound.com/2009/01/opensolaris-vs-freebsd/ Relevant ... Reliable ... Material Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:32:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: izamryan http://www.relevancefound.com/2009/01/opensolaris-vs-freebsd/comment-page-1/#comment-808 izamryan Sat, 30 May 2009 15:45:50 +0000 http://www.relevancefound.com/?p=195#comment-808 Heya glassdarkly, 1. Based on what I researched - FreeBSD enables the write cache on all drives, no matter what file system is on them (UFS / ZFS). 2. Mixing drives of different sizes will get awkward with OpenSolaris, since it expects the drives in a zpool to be the same. e.g. if you have 3x disks in a Raid-Z pool and the 3rd disk is a bit bigger ... from what I understand the extra space won't get used until the other 2x disks in the pool are upgraded to same size (or larger). 3. If mixing different drives is important for you - you could have a look @ Drobo. You lose some cool ZFS features though. (Snapshots, rollback, copy on write, enterprise-grade checksumming). Heya glassdarkly,

1. Based on what I researched – FreeBSD enables the write cache on all drives, no matter what file system is on them (UFS / ZFS).

2. Mixing drives of different sizes will get awkward with OpenSolaris, since it expects the drives in a zpool to be the same. e.g. if you have 3x disks in a Raid-Z pool and the 3rd disk is a bit bigger … from what I understand the extra space won’t get used until the other 2x disks in the pool are upgraded to same size (or larger).

3. If mixing different drives is important for you – you could have a look @ Drobo. You lose some cool ZFS features though. (Snapshots, rollback, copy on write, enterprise-grade checksumming).

]]> By: glassdarkly http://www.relevancefound.com/2009/01/opensolaris-vs-freebsd/comment-page-1/#comment-795 glassdarkly Thu, 28 May 2009 08:02:19 +0000 http://www.relevancefound.com/?p=195#comment-795 Do you know if enabling write caching with slices is now possible? These two threads seem to indicate that it might be possible to manually enable write caching anyway, but I'm not sure if I'm reading right: http://osdir.com/ml/os.solaris.opensolaris.zfs/2006-07/msg00510.html http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=89123 I'm picking hardware for a (preferably OpenSolaris) ZFS box, and it'd be simpler if I knew that I could mix drives of different sizes without wasting space. Do you know if enabling write caching with slices is now possible? These two threads seem to indicate that it might be possible to manually enable write caching anyway, but I’m not sure if I’m reading right:

http://osdir.com/ml/os.solaris.opensolaris.zfs/2006-07/msg00510.html
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=89123

I’m picking hardware for a (preferably OpenSolaris) ZFS box, and it’d be simpler if I knew that I could mix drives of different sizes without wasting space.

]]> By: izamryan http://www.relevancefound.com/2009/01/opensolaris-vs-freebsd/comment-page-1/#comment-476 izamryan Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:22:16 +0000 http://www.relevancefound.com/?p=195#comment-476 Good thinking concolor ... I'll give FreeNAS a go when I have an opportunity. Thanks for the tip! Good thinking concolor … I’ll give FreeNAS a go when I have an opportunity. Thanks for the tip!

]]> By: Concolor http://www.relevancefound.com/2009/01/opensolaris-vs-freebsd/comment-page-1/#comment-440 Concolor Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:27:32 +0000 http://www.relevancefound.com/?p=195#comment-440 Try FreeNAS which is based off of FreeBSD. www.freenas.org -Concolor Try FreeNAS which is based off of FreeBSD.
http://www.freenas.org

-Concolor

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