[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS layout for 10 disk?

2007-03-23 Thread John-Paul Drawneek
Consider that 18GByte disks are old and their failure rate will increase dramatically over the next few years. I guess thats why i am asking about raidz and mirrors, not just creating a huge stripe them Do something to have redundancy. If raidz2 works for your workload, I'd go with

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS layout for 10 disk?

2007-03-22 Thread Nicholas Lee
On 3/23/07, John-Paul Drawneek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can i do to Raidz2 over 5 and a Raidz2 over 4 with a spare for them all? or two Raidz2 over 4 with 2 spare? This is a question I was planning to ask as well. Does zfs allow a hot spare to be allocated to multiple pools or as a system

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS layout for 10 disk?

2007-03-22 Thread Eric Schrock
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:11:38PM +1200, Nicholas Lee wrote: On 3/23/07, John-Paul Drawneek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can i do to Raidz2 over 5 and a Raidz2 over 4 with a spare for them all? or two Raidz2 over 4 with 2 spare? This is a question I was planning to ask as well. Does zfs