Hi,
I have been using linux for the last 5 years trying to set up my nas machine (HP Proliant microserver) with FreeBSD, mostly for two reasons:
zfs and the wonderful packaging system.
Thing is, I don't really know where to start.
At the moment, my nas machine is a Via Artigo A2000 with Fedora (RAID1) running rtorrent, cups, samba, nfs, squeezebox server. So it's basically a nas + minor services for my home network.
The new hardware is an HP Proliant microserver (up to 4 stata II, up to 8GB ram, and Athlon Neo 1.6 GHz, few USB) with:
2 1 TB hard disk from my previous nas (I can buy another one if I go for raidz)
1 250 GB hard disk shipped with the microserver
4 GB RAM
I have managed to install 8.2 on it, just to play with, and I am quite happy (apart from the bloody /etc/init.d which I keep typing ) so I would like to move on, but I am not sure which one is the more flexible according to the hardware and my experience.
Should I go for a Raidz or zfs mirroring? I know it does depend on me too, but one question is:
1) Would you suggest to keep the root partition on the raidz (if possible) or not? If yes, would that be difficult ?
2) What about striping together the 2 mirrors of 2 disks? (still, I could do this only if I can keep root on the same devices, otherwise I would need 5 HDD, 4 for RAID1 and 1 for system, this is not possible for me.)
Thanks in advance.
I have been using linux for the last 5 years trying to set up my nas machine (HP Proliant microserver) with FreeBSD, mostly for two reasons:
zfs and the wonderful packaging system.
Thing is, I don't really know where to start.
At the moment, my nas machine is a Via Artigo A2000 with Fedora (RAID1) running rtorrent, cups, samba, nfs, squeezebox server. So it's basically a nas + minor services for my home network.
The new hardware is an HP Proliant microserver (up to 4 stata II, up to 8GB ram, and Athlon Neo 1.6 GHz, few USB) with:
2 1 TB hard disk from my previous nas (I can buy another one if I go for raidz)
1 250 GB hard disk shipped with the microserver
4 GB RAM
I have managed to install 8.2 on it, just to play with, and I am quite happy (apart from the bloody /etc/init.d which I keep typing ) so I would like to move on, but I am not sure which one is the more flexible according to the hardware and my experience.
Should I go for a Raidz or zfs mirroring? I know it does depend on me too, but one question is:
1) Would you suggest to keep the root partition on the raidz (if possible) or not? If yes, would that be difficult ?
2) What about striping together the 2 mirrors of 2 disks? (still, I could do this only if I can keep root on the same devices, otherwise I would need 5 HDD, 4 for RAID1 and 1 for system, this is not possible for me.)
Thanks in advance.