Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Akhil, [Getting caught up on 3 weeks of LUG email. How can you guys send out 2K email in 3 weeks? :) ] I run FreeNas 8.2 (or something like that). I like ZFS for data integrity though managing ZFS is nothing like ext3/4 or any of the other Linux F/S types. There is a learning curve and FreeNas also has a learning curve. ZFS does need lots of memory to run fast. 8GB is the recommended minimum. ZFS in Linux runs in user space so will run slower than ZFS on freebsd. There is no particular reason that ZFS/Ubuntu would be unstable. Since ZFS/Linux runs in user space, it shouldn't be able to crash the system. :) If you are not concerned about data integrity too much (disposal content like recording TV programs off the air) and need to span multiple disks, have a look at mhddfs which runs in user space but has some nice properties like being able to dynamically add new HDD to a mhddfs volume. Regards, Spencer On Sep 23, 2012, at 0:11, A. Lal <alal at poly.edu> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm about to set up my long delayed NAS based on the HP N40L > > I'm trying to decide between running Ubuntu on ZFS, or one of the OpenBSD > packages like FreeNAS 8 or NAS4Free with ZFS, of course. > > Have any of you run ZFS/Ubuntu? If so, how did it go and how stable was > your system?. > > Regards, > Akhil > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >