EponymousOne
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Hi all,
I'm doing some research before I make the plunge to FreeNAS and have been reading through the likes of:
http://www.freenas.org/blog/freenas-worst-practices/
https://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/...figuring-jbod-with-a-lsi-2208-controller/view
(the latter one refers to a 2208 but I actually own a 2108).
Since I'm stuck with an LSI 9260-8i hardware RAID controller I'm going to have to put every drive for my storage array into its own RAID0 - a bit yucky but I can't do much else as *officially* the 2108 controller doesn't support JBOD (I checked with LSI/Avago/Broadcom) on this. I don't want to mess around with flashing the firmware to get Initiator Target mode. I also don't want to start buying new controller cards.
However, my question actually refers to the install/boot disk where the installation of FreeNAS will be.
Is it best practice (and indeed, possible) to create a ZFS (Z or Z2) volume for the disk onto which FreeNAS is installed?
Do people normally only use a single disk for the install or multiple disks for redundancy?
Also is it possible to install a plain ZFS (not Z or Z2) onto a RAID1 mirror that I create on the LSI 9260-8i? Are there any known issues with doing this or do I lose any features by doing this?
Is it possible to use another file system for the install and use ZFS for the main storage array?
Apologies if there are a lot of questions here but I'm really trying to plan this out before I make the jump.
Thanks.
I'm doing some research before I make the plunge to FreeNAS and have been reading through the likes of:
http://www.freenas.org/blog/freenas-worst-practices/
https://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/...figuring-jbod-with-a-lsi-2208-controller/view
(the latter one refers to a 2208 but I actually own a 2108).
Since I'm stuck with an LSI 9260-8i hardware RAID controller I'm going to have to put every drive for my storage array into its own RAID0 - a bit yucky but I can't do much else as *officially* the 2108 controller doesn't support JBOD (I checked with LSI/Avago/Broadcom) on this. I don't want to mess around with flashing the firmware to get Initiator Target mode. I also don't want to start buying new controller cards.
However, my question actually refers to the install/boot disk where the installation of FreeNAS will be.
Is it best practice (and indeed, possible) to create a ZFS (Z or Z2) volume for the disk onto which FreeNAS is installed?
Do people normally only use a single disk for the install or multiple disks for redundancy?
Also is it possible to install a plain ZFS (not Z or Z2) onto a RAID1 mirror that I create on the LSI 9260-8i? Are there any known issues with doing this or do I lose any features by doing this?
Is it possible to use another file system for the install and use ZFS for the main storage array?
Apologies if there are a lot of questions here but I'm really trying to plan this out before I make the jump.
Thanks.