On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 11:48 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I use zfs on FreeBSD, but I have some theoretical questions, which may be > independent on the OS. > zfs has a lot of useful features, which makes it appealing for distributed > storage as well. > But building a distributed storage on top of zfs makes local redundancy > well, redundant. :) > If you use something over it which takes care of multi-host object > redundancy, building a large, redundant zpool out of local disks is > meaningless, while building a non-redundant pool locally is even worse (a > failure of a single disk means you have to rebuild the whole machine over > the network, which is innecessary). > > So it seems very logical to use a zpool on each disks, >
I don't quite see why you don't just use the raw disks and leave ZFS out of the picture in that case. I think you'll have to explain a bit more about your setup ... cheers Michael -- Michael Schuster http://recursiveramblings.wordpress.com/ recursion, n: see 'recursion' ------------------------------------------ openzfs: openzfs-developer Permalink: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T10533b84f9e1cfc5-M6e25bac6f650d007901d7266 Delivery options: https://openzfs.topicbox.com/groups/developer/subscription
