[Cialug] NAS Boxen

[Theron Conrey]

But you can continue to use compression.  The impact on ZFS is negligible and actually makes some things faster.

-Theron


On Jul 17, 2012, at 8:05 AM, David Champion wrote:

> If you use the de-duplication option on ZFS, then yes, you want more RAM.
> You can run with de-duplication turned off if you have less RAM.
> 
> -dc
> 
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Claus Niesen <cniesen at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 7/15/2012 Paul said:
>>> On 7/16/2012 1:59 PM, David Champion wrote:
>>>> I've been pretty happy with FreeNAS using ZFS RAID.
>>> 
>>> Ditto that.
>>> 
>>> -PG
>> 
>> I've been eying FreeNas especially since I need larger and larger
>> partitions for backup, and that's at home. :{  Currently I'm using an older
>> computer, Pentium 3 698MHz, 512MB RAM with 6.4GB (for OS), 80GB, 250GB and
>> 1.5TB drives. The 1.5TB drive needed to be split into three partitions to
>> avoid OpenBSD system limitations.
>> 
>> If I understand things correctly I still have limitations with FreeNAS as
>> ZFS really needs 8GB of RAM.
>> --
>> 
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