Hi Vano, * Vano Beridze ([email protected]) wrote: > Hello > > I have one 80gb hdd and 2 identical 320 hdd-s. All of them are sata drives. > I'm going to install OpenSolaris 2009.06 on 80gb HDD and create > mirrored pool using 2 320 hdd drives to store my data. > > I have the following questions: > > 1. Is it good drive layout? Can I have mirrored root pool using only > 2 320 hdd-s?
It's one option. As long as you don't mind having no parity for your root pool on the 80G disk. And yes, you can create a mirrored root pool using only the 320G disks. > 2. Will I be able create pool at the install time or I should do it > afterwards? The installer will create the root pool for you on whatever disk you choose. You will have to setup the mirror after installation. See the ZFS documentation on how to do that. > 3. My motherboard Asus P5B Deluxe has 2 controllers. Should I > connect 320 hdd-s to separate sata port of the each controller to > achieve better safety/performance? IIRC sata doesn't have this sort of guideline like old IDE interfaces did. In IDE land, you wanted to seperate out the controllers you used so that you weren't blocked when making requests to drives on the same controller. Sata did away with this limitation. Cheers, -- Glenn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
