Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-07-04 Thread Robert David
On Thursday, July 1, 2021 5:01:25 PM CEST antlists wrote: > On 01/07/2021 14:47, Robert David wrote: > > Hi Frank, > > > > > > > > In any of my data arrays I have long time migrated off the RAIDZ to the > > MIRROR or RAID10. You will find finally that the RAIDZ is slow and not > > very

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-07-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, July 1, 2021 3:47:08 PM CEST Robert David wrote: > In any of my data arrays I have long time migrated off the RAIDZ to the > MIRROR or RAID10. You will find finally that the RAIDZ is slow and not > very flexible. Only think you gain is the extra space in constrained > array spaces.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-07-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, July 1, 2021 3:29:03 AM CEST William Kenworthy wrote: > On 1/7/21 7:31 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Am Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 09:45:13PM +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > >> On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:56:49 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > >>> I reached 80 % usage (which is the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-07-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 04:01:25PM +0100 schrieb antlists: > On 01/07/2021 14:47, Robert David wrote: > > Hi Frank, > > > > > > > In any of my data arrays I have long time migrated off the RAIDZ to the > > MIRROR or RAID10. You will find finally that the RAIDZ is slow and not > > very

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-07-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Thu, Jul 01, 2021 at 04:07:39PM +0100 schrieb antlists: > On 01/07/2021 00:31, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Antlist made a similar suggestion using external USB, and I gave a more > > detailed answer in reply to his mail. > > I've got this ... > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-07-01 Thread antlists
On 01/07/2021 00:31, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Antlist made a similar suggestion using external USB, and I gave a more detailed answer in reply to his mail. I've got this ... https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B072J52TR1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8=1 It's eSATA not USB. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-07-01 Thread antlists
On 01/07/2021 14:47, Robert David wrote: Hi Frank, In any of my data arrays I have long time migrated off the RAIDZ to the MIRROR or RAID10. You will find finally that the RAIDZ is slow and not very flexible. Only think you gain is the extra space in constrained array spaces. For RAID10 it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-07-01 Thread Robert David
Hi Frank, On Tuesday, June 29, 2021 3:56:49 PM CEST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Hello fellows > > This is not really a Gentoo question, but at least my NAS (which this mail > is about) is running Gentoo. :) > > There are some people amongst this esteemed group that know their stuff > about

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-06-30 Thread William Kenworthy
On 1/7/21 7:31 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 09:45:13PM +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick: >> On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:56:49 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> >>> I reached 80 % usage (which is the recommended maximum for ZFS) and am >>> now evaluating my options for the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-06-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 09:45:13PM +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:56:49 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > > I reached 80 % usage (which is the recommended maximum for ZFS) and am > > now evaluating my options for the coming years. > > 1) Reduce use of space by

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-06-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 09:00:29PM +0100 schrieb antlists: > > I reached 80 % usage (which is the recommended maximum for ZFS) and am > > now evaluating my options for the coming years. > > 1) Reduce use of space by re-encoding. My payload is mainly movies, among > > which are 3 TB of DVDs

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-06-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:56:49 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > I reached 80 % usage (which is the recommended maximum for ZFS) and am > now evaluating my options for the coming years. > 1) Reduce use of space by re-encoding. My payload is mainly movies, > among which are 3 TB of DVDs which can

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-06-30 Thread antlists
On 29/06/2021 14:56, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Hello fellows This is not really a Gentoo question, but at least my NAS (which this mail is about) is running Gentoo. :) There are some people amongst this esteemed group that know their stuff about storage and servers and things, so I thought I

[gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ

2021-06-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hello fellows This is not really a Gentoo question, but at least my NAS (which this mail is about) is running Gentoo. :) There are some people amongst this esteemed group that know their stuff about storage and servers and things, so I thought I might try my luck here. I’ve already looked on the