`<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:svavar@pipar-tbwa.is" target="_blank">svavar@pipar-tbwa.is</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Hello.<br>
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I need to connect a single USB disk to my HP Microserver NL54 running OmniOS.<br>
Going to utilize it as a backup disk for some resources on my home LAN.<br>
The Microserver does have many USB ports that would be fine to utilize, as I have filled the 3.5" slots in the server<br>
in RAIDZ modes.<br>
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The thing is, what options do I have as formating the disk? Is it only the ancient UFS and<br>
the FAT32 which is not going to do it's job because of file size limit ?<br>
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And correct me if I'm wrong, ZFS on a single disk is not a nice job.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why not?<br><br></div><div>ZFS is better than UFS or FAT. It'll tell you when your data is corrupted,<br></div><div>which the others won't. If you want extra protection and have enough<br>space then set copies=2 (lose the space, but you get self-healing back).<br></div><div>Do set LZ4 compression, there's no reason not to these days.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Just because you can't take advantage of all of the ZFS benefits doesn't<br></div><div>immediately make it unsuitable, when the alternatives don't even have<br></div><div>those features at all.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
btw, I do have 16GB ECC memory on the HP Microserver.<br>
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As OpenIndiana distro has the NTFS fuse modules available, but there isn't any available<br>
for OmniOS. Any reason why?<br>
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So my options are what, UFS and FAT32 ?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>ZFS. Although the one consideration for a backup drive is what you're<br></div><div>going to connect it to. (Which again says ZFS, because you can then<br></div><div>import the pool on another system pretty easily.)<br></div><div> <br></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-Peter Tribble<br><a href="http://www.petertribble.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.petertribble.co.uk/</a> - <a href="http://ptribble.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://ptribble.blogspot.com/</a></div>
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