New server and first attempt at running FreeBSD/amd64 with ZFS for all storage
The switch to new hardware finally happened. This is the first server to run FreeBSD/amd64 under my supervision. ZFS is used for all storage on this server. I chose to install the newly released FreeBSD/amd64 9.0-RELEASE, before upgrading to FreeBSD/amd64 9.0-STABLE by source. It’s just a matter of preference, given my 13-14 years of experience with FreeBSD.
| Item | Make and model |
|---|---|
| Chassis | Cooler Master Centurion 5 II Midi Tower |
| PSU | Corsair HX 850W PSU |
| Motherboard | Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3, Socket-1155 |
| CPU | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2400 CPU @ 3.10GHz |
| Memory | Two Crucial DDR3 1333MHz 4GB KIT, CL9 (CT2KIT25664BA1339) |
| Hard drives | Five Seagate Barracuda® 500GB (<ST500DM002-1BD142 KC45> ATA-8 SATA 3.x device) According to smartctl, these drives uses:Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical |
| DVD Writer | Sony Optiarc DVD±RW Writer, AD-5280S |
The drives are organized as follows:
gpart create -s gpt /dev/ada0 gpart create -s gpt /dev/ada1 gpart add -b 40 -s 256 -t freebsd-boot ada0 gpart add -b 40 -s 256 -t freebsd-boot ada1 gpart add -b 2048 -s 33554432 -t freebsd-swap -l swap0 ada0 gpart add -b 2048 -s 33554432 -t freebsd-swap -l swap1 ada1 gpart add -t freebsd-zfs ada0 gpart add -t freebsd-zfs ada1 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada0 gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptzfsboot -i 1 ada1 gnop create -S 4096 /dev/ada0p3 gnop create -S 4096 /dev/ada1p3 gnop create -S 4096 /dev/ada2 gnop create -S 4096 /dev/ada3 gnop create -S 4096 /dev/ada4 zpool create -o cachefile=/tmp/zpool.cache -m /tmp/zroot enterprise_zroot mirror /dev/ada0p3.nop /dev/ada1p3.nop zpool create -o cachefile=/tmp/zpool.cache -m /tmp/zdata enterprise_zdata raidz1 /dev/ada2.nop /dev/ada3.nop /dev/ada4.nop zpool export enterprise_zroot zpool export enterprise_zdata gnop destroy /dev/ada0p3.nop gnop destroy /dev/ada1p3.nop gnop destroy /dev/ada2.nop gnop destroy /dev/ada3.nop gnop destroy /dev/ada4.nop zpool import -o cachefile=/tmp/zpool.cache enterprise_zroot zpool import -o cachefile=/tmp/zpool.cache enterprise_zdata
Next, a pretty usual FreeBSD ZFS organization occured. Most of the files are stored in the enterprise_zroot pool, but more important things like /home, /usr/local/pgsql, /usr/local/www and /var/db/mysql are stored in the enterprise_zdata pool. See my blog entry from October 2011 to get an idea of what filesystems I create and how.
More description of my setup might follow if and when I get time to type it.