Re: simple zfs query

2010-03-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/03/2010 21:23:54, krad wrote: If you want 100% of the drives you could have a pool per drive. Its not as nice as one big pool, but its less risky than one big raid0 Errr... no it's not. The risk of something going wrong is exactly the same.

Re: simple zfs query

2010-03-25 Thread krad
On 25 March 2010 09:05, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.ukwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/03/2010 21:23:54, krad wrote: If you want 100% of the drives you could have a pool per drive. Its not as nice as one big pool, but its less risky than one big

simple zfs query

2010-03-24 Thread John
Hello list, With ZFS and 3x 2Tb SATA disks, what percentage of theoretical diskspace would I realise? I'm hoping at least 5Tb would be usable? thanks -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5

Re: simple zfs query

2010-03-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/03/2010 10:31:51, John wrote: With ZFS and 3x 2Tb SATA disks, what percentage of theoretical diskspace would I realise? I'm hoping at least 5Tb would be usable? That depends on how you configure your zpool. The choices are: disk -- just

Re: simple zfs query

2010-03-24 Thread krad
On 24 March 2010 11:33, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.ukwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/03/2010 10:31:51, John wrote: With ZFS and 3x 2Tb SATA disks, what percentage of theoretical diskspace would I realise? I'm hoping at least 5Tb would be usable?