Re: simple zfs query

2010-03-25 Thread krad
On 25 March 2010 09:05, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 24/03/2010 21:23:54, krad wrote: > > If you want 100% of the drives you could have a pool per drive. Its not > as > > nice as one big pool, but its less risky than one big raid0 > > Errr... no it

Re: simple zfs query

2010-03-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/03/2010 21:23:54, krad wrote: > If you want 100% of the drives you could have a pool per drive. Its not as > nice as one big pool, but its less risky than one big raid0 Errr... no it's not. The risk of something going wrong is exactly the same.

Re: simple zfs query

2010-03-24 Thread krad
On 24 March 2010 11:33, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 24/03/2010 10:31:51, John wrote: > > With ZFS and 3x 2Tb SATA disks, what percentage of theoretical diskspace > > would I realise? I'm hoping at least 5Tb would be usable? > > That depends on how

Re: simple zfs query

2010-03-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/03/2010 10:31:51, John wrote: > With ZFS and 3x 2Tb SATA disks, what percentage of theoretical diskspace > would I realise? I'm hoping at least 5Tb would be usable? That depends on how you configure your zpool. The choices are: disk -- just u

simple zfs query

2010-03-24 Thread John
Hello list, With ZFS and 3x 2Tb SATA disks, what percentage of theoretical diskspace would I realise? I'm hoping at least 5Tb would be usable? thanks -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5 __