recommendations for file server based zfs appliance

Patrick M. Hausen hausen at punkt.de
Fri Aug 18 12:04:04 UTC 2017


Hi all,

> Am 18.08.2017 um 13:58 schrieb Pete French <petefrench at ingresso.co.uk>:
> 
>> Maybe the folk that made hardware suggestions can post which net
>> interface(s) they are using and whether they are seeing driver issues?
> 
> The HP boxes have Broadcom ethernet controllers driven with the 'bge'
> driver, and thatw orks fine. I stick to Intel or Broadcom controllers for
> gigabit ether where I have a choice.

The Supermicro system I mentioned features 4 Intel igb(4) interfaces.
I bridge them to save an extra switch in my home network - works great.

BTW: this Supermicro box looks suspiciously similar to at least one
generation of the FreeNAS mini ...

Patrick
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