[zfs-discuss] zfs mirroring question

2007-12-05 Thread Brian Lionberger
I create two zfs's on one pool of four disks with two mirrors, such as... / zpool create tank mirror disk1 disk2 mirror disk3 disk4 zfs create tank/fs1 zfs create tank/fs2/ Are fs1 and fs2 striped across all four disks? If two disks fail that represent a 2-way mirror, do I lose data? Brian.

[zfs-discuss] raidz2 testing

2007-11-20 Thread Brian Lionberger
Is there a preferred method to test a raidz2. I would like to see the the disks recover on there own after simulating a disk failure. I'm have a 4 disk configuration. Brian. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] raidz2

2007-11-19 Thread Brian Lionberger
If I yank out a disk in a raidz2 4 disk array, shouldn't the other disks pick up without any errrors? I have a 3120 JBOD and I went and yanked out a disk and the everything got hosed. It's okay, because I'm just testing stuff and wanted to see raidz2 in action when a disk goes down. Am I

[zfs-discuss] zpool question

2007-11-16 Thread Brian Lionberger
I have a zpool issue that I need to discuss. My application is going to run on a 3120 with 4 disks. Two(mirrored) disks will represent /export/home and the other two(mirrored) will be /export/backup. The question is, should I create one zpool or two to hold /export/home and /export/backup?