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mnathani_ has joined #arpnetworks mnathani_: whats the best way to acquaint ones self with ZFS? What Operating System / Virtualized hardware in terms of disks would I use? mercutio: solaris :/
nah it doesn't really matter
there's nothing particularly complicated about it i reckon
openindiana, linux, freebsd are all fine choices.
i would stay away from solaris now though
recent solaris and recent free stuff isn't compatible, and oracle have kind of made a mess of it.
for disks, if running on real hw, then 3 hard-disks + 1 ssd is probably a nice place to start.
but you can run it on even just a single hard-disk and still get snapshotting and other useful features. mnathani_: how about multiple virtual disks residing on a single ssd? brycec: For getting the hang of it, sure that's fine
Doing production-level stuff... no :p
But if you're just getting the hang of the commands, then pick Linux (eg Arch), FreeBSD, or some Solaris derivitave that you're most comfortable with. mnathani_: brycec: definitely not production stuff
does any operating system provide a decent gui for beginners to get started with zfs? brycec: FreeNAS mnathani_: Or is it command line based for the most part?
k brycec: It's commandline mostly. But FreeNAS is nice and gooey.
^It=ZFS mnathani_: how does the built in iscsi and samba support vary between FreeBSD and Linux? brycec: Linux doesn't have any.
And FreeBSD doesn't really either.
(But the built-in NFS support is there in FreeBSD)
Specifically, it just ties-in to mountd, providing a few more exports(5) entires
*entries mercutio: solaris has the best built in samba
other than windows
linux, bsd, and os x are all pretty weak
oh in solaris samba is built into zfs
with linux it just interfaces to samba
i wonder when samba will get smp support ***: NiTe_ has joined #arpnetworks
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NiTe_ is now known as NiTe mnathani_: smp is multi processor support? mercutio: yeh
freenode is being special i see mnathani_: netsplit again? mercutio: looks that way mnathani_: I have joins and parts hidden so I cant really tell
any kvr hosts left to be updated ? ***: dj_goku_ has quit IRC (Read error: Connection reset by peer)
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