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Please help superboyac build a server (2013 edition).
40hz:
@SB - that second quote sounds like either somebody shilling for Microsoft, or somebody who doesn't know much about Linux other than what they've seen in non-specialist web articles.
The mount point argument being made is incorrect, misinformed, and outdated. Red herring. It can be ignored.
ZFS is very "production ready" although there are poor implementations of it out there. Best to find a distro that officially supports it as one of their filesystems if you want to use it. Btrfs is still in heavy enough development that I wouldn't consider it for anything really big and/or critical at this point...
Regarding Darkleech - I suppose that could be a danger in some areas. But if you're not running an Apache server on the box in question it can't affect you. Smart money also seems to indicate the attack vector is through outdated or insecure copies of Plesk or cPanel since the exploit needs to gain root access to the server in order to do it's dirty deed. Unless you're planning to run a public facing webserver, I wouldn't worry about Darkleech too much. It's more a hosting service provider problem revolving around sloppy configurations plus them not keeping up with security patches since that's mostly who has been targeted.
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superboyac:
I think at this point, I'm more than willing to give ZFS a try over server 2012. I already have looked at 2012 R2, and it's nice. But there isn't enough written about it right now for me to understand how good or bad it is. ZFS seems to be reliable, and your go ahead also is something I value for it.
I haven't been able to find much information about FreeNAS 9 or 9.1, especially regarding the drive pooling features. Got anything to read or watch for that?
Vurbal:
When I built my server (nothing fancy - just an old dual P3 white box) I decided to go with a separate XFS partition for video files. I'm no Linux expert but I did a lot of research and determined that was probably the best bet since it's well optimized for large file sizes and consistent high throughput. I have no idea how it works with drive pools since it's not something I care about. I definitely wouldn't recommend it for a lot of smaller files.
As to stability issues with various Linux file systems, there's more to consider than the file system - don't use Btrfs though. Sometimes it's related to power issues you shouldn't have as long as you use a quality power supply and UPS. You should always have a UPS for an important machine. If you're really paranoid you could build a dual power supply monster but I wouldn't bother. Quality is more important than quantity.
In any case I agree completely with 40hz that ZFS is production ready as long as it's a proper implementation.
superboyac:
(I've updated the first post to include the pricing table and list of items I plan to get.)
Vurbal:
Good choice on the Cooler Master case. Their cases have as good a combination of component accessibility and airflow as you're likely to find.
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