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Old 27th February 2011
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Default Config to hardware, 6+ months OK

About six months ago I applied the ZFS config I described above to the actual hardware, running FreeBSD 8.1. Current usage is:
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Filesystem        Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad1s1a       3.9G    266M    3.3G     7%    /
devfs             1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/ad1s1d       9.7G     12K    8.9G     0%    /tmp
/dev/ad1s1e        58G    410M     53G     1%    /usr
/dev/ad1s1f       150G    116G     22G    84%    /var
tank              689G     22K    689G     0%    /tank
tank/Backups      689G     18K    689G     0%    /tank/Backups
tank/MyStuff      690G    1.1G    689G     0%    /tank/MyStuff
tank/Warehouse    1.6T    909G    689G    57%    /tank/Warehouse
My experience with the setup has been very good, with NFS access provided to a variety of machines over my network. The only thing I have found is that the system can be quite slow at times, I think that this is down to it being ZFS overhead etc but I am investigating this. That said, I've had no crashes or errors. I have been keeping monthly rsync'd backups to several large external hard disks just in case.

Next steps are to setup some automated monitoring of the health of the zpool etc and mail the results out to me nightly.
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