> First, my situation. I have several disks of varying > sizes I would like to run as redundant storage ina > file server at home. Performance is not my number one > priority, largest capacity possible while allowing > for a single disk failure. Is there a soluton to my > problem? > > My understanding is as follows, JBOD does not protect > from a disk failure. > > Raidz can only be as big as your smallest disk. For > example if I had a 320gig with a 250gig and 200gig I > could only have 400gig of storage.
With RAIDZ one can use disks of any size in any configuration -- since RAIDZ uses dynamic striping, the stripes aren't fixed anyway and therefore neither do disks have to be. I've tried it and it works. So, the answer for your particular case is ZFS with RAIDZ or RAIDZ2. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
