New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

[Kaya Saman]

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> Running with no xorg.conf is fine, but you need to make sure dbus and 
> hal are started at boot.  Follow the handbook for best results.
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> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html

I'm sure I started them as this doc is exactly what I followed...... I 
think if I recall correctly or at least something like it?? Anyway as 
explained I will use Vbox to check 100% and then at least have proper 
logs and cli output to compare to and give everyone an idea of what's 
going on unlike now!

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> If you're concerned about system resources, at least from a minimalist 
> perspective, then ZFS is not for you.  Solaris can't help you with 
> that either, ZFS is hungry.  ZFS is also not "standard", but 
> considered production ready.  UFS is still the standard, and the only 
> filesystem supported by the installer without resorting to tricks.

Yes ZFS is hungry :-)

I run Solaris 10 on an ancient Sun Netra T105 server with 360MB of RAM 
which uses ZFS file system and apart being a reverse proxy it won't 
handle anything else easily. Also my E420r server with 1GB of RAM 
running Sun Ray software is limited to just that and can only handle 1 
Ray unit on top of the SXCE (Solaris Express Community Edition) OS.

I know how strong UFS v.1 is as I use it with Solaris 9, but how about 
UFS v.2 which is what FreeBSD runs?? When compared with ext3 from a 
performance/reliability perspective which one comes on top?

Also if something goes wrong with the filesystem what are the tools to 
check the drive and repair errors as in Linux I use e2fsck followed by 
device ID. As mention UFS v.1 is incredibly strong especially when run 
on SCSI II drives that the Sun Netra T105 uses so I haven't had an FS 
failure yet and if UFS v.2 is similar I don't suspect having a failure 
either although this machine will have IDE drives and uses x86 
architecture as opposed to SPARC.

In fact I am only really after ZFS for its self healing properties as I 
don't mind going with any file system as long as it's stable. Ext3 
although easily repairable is quite unstable on my systems anyway!

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> All the other services work well on FreeBSD.
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> -- 
> Adam Vande More

Cool, thanks Adam! :-) I appreciate the response.


Kaya