It looks like I will be rebuilding my database server sometime this weekend. The drives that I ordered off eBay came in today. It will now have 18GB for the OS and 200GB for the database. It will also have an additional ~180GB from a
HDS 5800 if I can find a FC HBA that actually works.
I've been very pleased with
Solaris 10. That said, I don't want to deal with
SVM RAID5 (4x
ST173404LC) when ZFS is around the corner. I just don't have enough disk space to use for temp storage if I need to restructure my filesystem.
I'm going to try the latest Solaris Express since it has
ZFS. Hopefully the next stable release of Solaris 10 (06/06?) will come with ZFS. If it does, I'll happily use it for the next several years.
Here's to
Postgresql + Solaris 10. It rocks.