From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 References: <322fa0e8c0ed03f250cdcecaeec7040b@ladd.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Message-Id: <74E2D02D-E5ED-4649-9150-3FA5F1AB87D7@bitblocks.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Bakul Shah Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:28:49 -0800 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] (no subject) Topicbox-Message-UUID: 522690c6-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 My fileserver is running freebsd zfs. Basically one machine for nfs, venti, c= ifs, timemachine + sundry other services. This has worked well since 2005. I= nitially I used h/w raid under zfs. This was a mistake, forcibly corrected w= hen my machine died. Now I use raidz. Since then I have replaced disks with m= uch bigger disks without taking the machine down, upgraded the os & zpool/zf= s versions a couple of times (could've done without them but I prefer to run= the latest stable release). Except for these events it has required hardly a= ny maintenance (just checking vital signs like fan speed, any disk errors in= weekly zpool scrub etc). One issue is FreeBSD install still doesn't install= on zfs. But you can run a minimal root off a USB disk and manually setup zf= s (which is pretty easy). I should probably run an AOE server on it as well!= When I next replace this machine I will see if I can create a USB disk imag= e. On Dec 30, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Aram H=C4=83v=C4=83rneanu wrot= e: >> aoe doesn't require solaris, or any other operating system. >> you can use it directly with a plan 9 file server, as i do. >=20 > Of course AoE doesn't require much, my comment was in the context of > Coraid's hardware appliance. >=20 > I don't have much use for AoE at home. At one point I used it to > network boot machines, but I only have laptops now, which have local > disks because I need to use them disconnected from the network > sometimes. >=20 > I need a higher level protocol like 9p or venti, and I'd rather have a > single Plan 9 machine with direct attached disks serving everything > than a Plan 9 front end serving 9p and another machine providing AoE > to it. I have way, way to many machines. Yesterday I've thrown away > 5. I need less machines, not more :-). >=20 > Does the Coraid applience implement RAID in hardware or does it use > fs(3) or another software solution? >=20 > --=20 > Aram H=C4=83v=C4=83rneanu >=20