Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Pool, what happen when disk failure

2010-04-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Ian Collins [mailto:i...@ianshome.com] Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 5:09 PM To: Edward Ned Harvey Cc: 'Robert Milkowski'; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Pool, what happen when disk failure On 04/26/10 12:08 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: [why do you snip

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Pool, what happen when disk failure

2010-04-25 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Robert Milkowski On 24/04/2010 13:51, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: But what you might not know: If any pool fails, the system will crash. This actually depends on the failmode property

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Pool, what happen when disk failure

2010-04-25 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 25/04/2010 13:08, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: The system should boot-up properly even if some pools are not accessible (except rpool of course). If it is not the case then there is a bug - last time I checked it worked perfectly fine. This may be different in the latest opensolaris, but

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Pool, what happen when disk failure

2010-04-25 Thread Ian Collins
On 04/26/10 12:08 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: [why do you snip attributions?] On 04/26/10 01:45 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: The system should boot-up properly even if some pools are not accessible (except rpool of course). If it is not the case then there is a bug - last time I checked it

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Pool, what happen when disk failure

2010-04-24 Thread Haudy Kazemi
aneip wrote: I really new to zfs and also raid. I have 3 hard disk, 500GB, 1TB, 1.5TB. On each HD i wanna create 150GB partition + remaining space. I wanna create raidz for 3x150GB partition. This is for my document + photo. You should be able to create 150 GB slices on each drive, and

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Pool, what happen when disk failure

2010-04-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Haudy Kazemi Your remaining space can be configured as slices. These slices can be added directly to a second pool without any redundancy. If any drive fails, that whole non-redundant pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Pool, what happen when disk failure

2010-04-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of aneip I really new to zfs and also raid. I have 3 hard disk, 500GB, 1TB, 1.5TB. On each HD i wanna create 150GB partition + remaining space. I wanna create raidz for 3x150GB

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Pool, what happen when disk failure

2010-04-24 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 24/04/2010 13:51, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: But what you might not know: If any pool fails, the system will crash. This actually depends on the failmode property setting in your pools. The default is panic, but it also might be wait or continue - see zpool(1M) man page for more details.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Pool, what happen when disk failure

2010-04-24 Thread aneip
Thanks for all the answer, still trying to read slowly and understand. Pardon my English coz this is my 2nd language. I believe I owe some more explanation. The system is actually freenas which installed on separate disk. 3 disks, 500GB, 1TB and 1.5TB is for data only. The first pool will be

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Pool, what happen when disk failure

2010-04-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, aneip wrote: What I trying to avoid is, if 1 of the disk fail I will lost all of the data in the pool even from healthy drive. I not sure whether I can simple pull out 1 drive and all the file which located on the faulty drive will be lost. The file which on other drive

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Pool, what happen when disk failure

2010-04-23 Thread aneip
I really new to zfs and also raid. I have 3 hard disk, 500GB, 1TB, 1.5TB. On each HD i wanna create 150GB partition + remaining space. I wanna create raidz for 3x150GB partition. This is for my document + photo. As for the remaining I wanna create my video library. This one no need any