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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:49:17
Message-Id: CAN0CFw0wY==CMU5A2s7KOZkbBnNShj5GeBAmqPFzGiuL9nS4uA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server by Pandu Poluan
1 >>>> Is the Gentoo Software RAID + LVM guide the best place for RAID
2 >>>> install info if I'm not using LVM and I'll have a hardware RAID
3 >>>> controller?
4 >>>
5 >>> Not ready to take the ZFS plunge? That would greatly reduce the complexity
6 >>> of RAID+LVM, since ZFS best practice is to set your hardware raid controller
7 >>> to JBOD mode and let ZFS take care of the RAID - and no LVM required (ZFS
8 >>> has mucho better tools). That is my next big project for when I switch to my
9 >>> next new server.
10 >>>
11 >>> I'm just hoping I can get comfortable with a process for getting ZFS
12 >>> compiled into the kernel that is workable/tenable for ongoing kernel updates
13 >>> (with minimal fear of breaking things due to a complex/fragile
14 >>> methodology)...
15 >>
16 >> Can't you just emerge zfs-kmod? Or maybe you're trying to do it
17 >> without module support?
18 >
19 > @tanstaafl's kernels have no module support.
20
21 OK, but why exclude module support?
22
23 - Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Need a new server Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>