Micah Leier writes:
> Where would the right place to ask be?
I'd go for [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the "why can't I add drives
slowly to RAID-Z?" question, and [EMAIL PROTECTED] for
general Solaris Volume Manager questions.
> also, it's not so much that I'm daft, its that I need a large array that can
> be expanded slowly, and performance isn't that important. Adding a drive
> (which people have asked about a ton) is impossible with RAID-Z, and this
> seems a pretty decent work around, which makes me wonder why no one has
> mentioned it before, I figured there must have been some huge caveat or
> something, hence the somewhat stupid questions. Also, I think your answers
> are out of order as you can't add a drive to a RAID-Z.
I can think of a few reasons not to do this, but they might not apply
to you.
- Most (perhaps all) of the current development work is focusing on
ZFS. Working off of the beaten path means you won't get as much
attention.
- It's much harder to administer SVM than it is to manage zpools,
and it often requires very careful planning to get right, and
there are many more ways to hurt yourself.
- I'm not so sure SVM does a great job using incrementally-added
drives with RAID-5 ... I seem to recall needing to set up a
concatenation of RAID-5 volumes in order to get it to work well.
(But my memory could be faulty there. I mostly just don't wanna
go back to the days of managing metadb replicas.)
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