zfs raid and/or hardware raid..

[Matias Surdi]

If your are just going to "play with it", the play as much as you want 
with ZFS.

But, if you are going to setup something that will have to go on 
production some day, at least at this moment i wouldn't recommend you ZFS.

I've used it for a backup server, and due to power failures in the 
building, all the times the energy went out the pool got corrupted, the 
las one was completely unrecoverable.I ended up using gconcat/gstripe 
and so on, and despite a couple more power failures, just once I've had 
to run fsck.Everything works (and "feels") much more solid now.

Just my opinion.


B. Cook wrote:
> I have a dimension 9150 that I am going to put amd64 freebsd on to play 
> with.
> 
> It has Intel ICH7 SATA300 on it, in the bios it says it can do raid.
> 
> I'm assuming that would be a hardware raid..
> 
> Would I be better off just using two disks and mirror them in software 
> raid (zpool) or using the Intel hardware-ish raid and then zfs the raid?
> 
> box has 2G of ram, and a pair of 250G sata 300 drives.
> 
> clues appreciated.
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