On 8/21/07, UNIX admin <tripivceta at hotmail.com> wrote: > > > For example, RAID5 MUST have at least three disks, > > > RAIDZ can work with only two. > > > > > > All disks in a RAID5 config MUST be the same size, > > > RAIDZ will take any size disks, although it will > > warn > > > about it, it will work. > > ... > > > He was simply trying to decide how to allocate his > > disk space. From the user's perspective, RAIDz and > > RAID5 operate the same way. The end. > > Apparently you did not read what I wrote above. They are NOT the same, not > even "from the user's perspective", because storage considerations for RAID5 > and RAIDZ are DIFFERENT. > > If you treat RAIDZ as a RAID5 equivalent, you may seriously misconfigure your > storage. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org >
Where is there a good explanation of how ZFS works when given disks of various sizes? (You mentioned a warning. Is this a performance warning or a data integrity warning?) -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/
