Re: Creating a zfs filesystem in CentOS 6.4

[dsavage@peaknet.net]

On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 16:21 -0500, Steven Pritchard wrote:
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 02:17:30PM -0500, dsavage@peaknet.net wrote:
> > I'm now at another standstill. I only have 8 GB of RAM in this system. I
> > need that much to cache the block hashes for a 1 TB ZFS volume. My RAID5
> > array is 2 TB, so I need another 8 GB of RAM just for ZFS. So now I'm
> > looking for 24 GB more of DDR2 ECC of the correct speed (??) before
> > resuming the conversion.
>
> You can turn on deduplication later, so there's no need to wait to set
> everything up.
>
> You can't dedupe after the fact though (yet), so you might want to wait
> to actually copy data to it.

Steve,

DDR2 memory isn't nearly as cheap as DDR3. I think this would be the right
fit for my SuperMicro motherboard (6 pairs):
http://www.pcprogress.com/product.asp?m1=pw&pid=MDD2-800-4GBKIT

--Doc

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