New FreeBSD8.2 server install.

[Sergio de Almeida Lenzi]

Em Seg, 2011-06-20 às 13:01 -0400, Chris Brennan escreveu:

> I've got a new machine to replace the one that died on me a few weeks 
> ago and since then, I've collected and cataloged my drives of various 
> sizes and I am curious if I am able to do something like a poor-mans 
> LVM, I thought about gmirror but that might be tricky, since I would 
> have to slice drives up according to the smallest drive I have (current 
> an unmarked 40GB drive). Is there a way within FreeBSD to concatenate 
> the drives into a software raid0 array?

Hello,

I prefer ZFS,  it is reliable, fast, and full of features,
in a FreeBSD 8.2 AMD64 it rocks...

I use to partition the disk  using a small ufs partition (4Gb)
follow 4Gb swap, and the rest of the disk for ZFS,
Once created the zfs , I can mount the zfs as rootfs, and than
define whatever I need after, as mirror, partitions, snapshots... and so
on
the system must have 4G (or more) of memory, and is is really fast..

I am very satisfied with the system (I have installed about 60 already,
with this
configuration)...


Sergio