Introduction: In this blog post we are going to create a Mirrored file system using ZFS. We are going to use 5 Disks, 4 for data and 1 as a hot spare. The disks will be 200GB with a combined size of 1TB, but acutal usable space will only be 400GB. This file system has…
Tag: ZFS
ZFS Replication…
As I’ve been investigating ZFS for use on production systems, I’ve been making a great deal of notes, and jotting down little “cookbook recipies” for various tasks. One of the coolest systems I’ve created recently utilised the zfs send & receive commands, along with incremental snapshots to create a replicated ZFS environment across two different…
Who wants Media…. On there TV… XBMC, Zotac Zbox, and FreeNas Mash up…
So Like most people i like to watch DVDs, youtube, and other internet media and i wanted to put all of this media in one place and stream it on to my TV. So what did i do.. first of i sat down and thought about how i wanted the system to work and how…
How to create a ZFS file system on ubuntu with 3 drives raid 5 equiv…
This Video will talk you through setting up a ZFS File system.
Open Source Network Attached Storage with FreeNAS…
The FreeNAS distribution is tailor-made for installation in a small office environment. It is an extremely low-resource network storage system that you can administer through a Web browser, but it supports high-end features like automatic backups, replication, LDAP or Active Directory authentication, and seamless file-sharing over NFS, CIFS, AFP, and even FTP and TFTP. The latest release…