After some reading, I come back from my original idea. Main reason is
I'd like to be able to grow the fs as the need develops in time.
One could create a raidz zpool with a couple of disks, but when adding a
disk later on, it will not become part of the raidz (I tested this).
It seems vdevs can not be nested (create raidz sets and join them as a
whole), so I came up with the following:
Start out with 4*1TB, and use geom_raid5 to create an independent
redundant pool of storage:
'graid5 label -v graid5a da0 da1 da2 da3' (this is all tested in
vmware, one of these 'da' drives is 8GB)
Then I 'zpool create bigvol /dev/raid5/graid5a', and I have a /bigvol of
24G - sounds about right to me for a raid5 volume.
Now lets say later in time I need more storage, I buy another 4 of these
drives, and
'graid5 label -v graid5b da4 da5 da6 da7'
and
'zpool add bigvol /dev/raid5/graid5b'
Now my bigvol is 48G. Very cool! Now I have redundant storage that can
grow and it's pretty easy too.
Is this OK (besides from the fact that graid5 is not in production yet,
nor is ZFS ;) or are there easier (or better) ways to do this?
- So I want redundancy (I don't want one failing drive to cause me to
loose all my data)
- I want to be able to grow the filesystem if I need to, by adding a
(set of) drive(s) later on.
-- FR
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