Richard Elling wrote:
Erik Trimble wrote:
If you had known about the drive sizes beforehand, the you could have
done something like this:
Partition the drives as follows:
A: 1 20GB partition
B: 1 20gb 1 10GB partition
C: 1 40GB partition
D: 1 40GB partition 2 10GB paritions
then you
Jef Pearlman wrote:
Absent that, I was considering using zfs and just
having a single pool. My main question is this: what
is the failure mode of zfs if one of those drives
either fails completely or has errors? Do I
permanently lose access to the entire pool? Can I
attempt to read
Perhaps I'm not asking my question clearly. I've already experimented
a fair amount with zfs, including creating and destroying a number of
pools with and without redundancy, replacing vdevs, etc. Maybe asking
by example will clarify what I'm looking for or where I've missed the
boat. The key
Darren Dunham wrote:
The problem I've come across with using mirror or raidz for this setup
is that (as far as I know) you can't add disks to mirror/raidz groups,
and if you just add the disk to the pool, you end up in the same
situation as above (with more space but no redundancy).
You
Darren Dunham wrote:
The problem I've come across with using mirror or raidz for this setup
is that (as far as I know) you can't add disks to mirror/raidz groups,
and if you just add the disk to the pool, you end up in the same
situation as above (with more space but no redundancy).
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 14:50 -0700, Darren Dunham wrote:
Darren Dunham wrote:
The problem I've come across with using mirror or raidz for this setup
is that (as far as I know) you can't add disks to mirror/raidz groups,
and if you just add the disk to the pool, you end up in the same
Jef Pearlman wrote:
Perhaps I'm not asking my question clearly. I've already experimented a fair amount
with zfs, including creating and destroying a number of pools with and without
redundancy, replacing vdevs, etc. Maybe asking by example will clarify what I'm
looking for or where I've
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 12:03 -0700, Jef Pearlman wrote:
Jef Pearlman wrote:
Absent that, I was considering using zfs and just
having a single pool. My main question is this: what
is the failure mode of zfs if one of those drives
either fails completely or has errors? Do I
Erik Trimble wrote:
If you had known about the drive sizes beforehand, the you could have
done something like this:
Partition the drives as follows:
A: 1 20GB partition
B: 1 20gb 1 10GB partition
C: 1 40GB partition
D: 1 40GB partition 2 10GB paritions
then you do:
zpool create tank
