I have been Googling for the last week on file systems like ZFS and the best way to store and preserve data that needs to be read on a regular basis. I've read many conflicting opinions, in particular about ZFS, and was hoping to get some opinions on this list.
Like many music lovers I've ditched the CD player and have a Debian based music server that fetches music from a big hard drive on my desktop box via NFS. Most of my music is ripped from my personal collection of CDs I've amassed over the years. But I've been purchasing quite a few high resolution titles from online sources such as HDTracks and Channel Classics. I'm trying to think of the best way to preserve the integrity of these music files over the long term. I've read good things about FreeNAS and its ZFS implementation but that would require assembling a separate machine. The conflicting reports regard CPU power and the amount of RAM one needs to run ZFS, e.g., 1GB per TB of disk space. With one user reading one FLAC file at a time from a machine running ZFS does one need a modern CPU and gobs of RAM? I understand ECC RAM and a 64 bit OS is recommended. Can my desktop run ZFS on the discs with the music files and use a separate disk with ext3 for my daily tasks? If yes, should I run 64bit Debian or just use lots of RAM and PAE? Any other suggestions would be appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130924030757.GA20255@phobos
