Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-13 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-10-12 19:34, Freddie Cash пишет: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: In fact, you can (although not recommended due to balancing reasons) have tlvdevs of mixed size (like in Freddie's example) and even of different structure (i.e. mixing raidz and mirrors or

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-13 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-10-13 0:41, Ian Collins пишет: On 10/13/12 02:12, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: There are at least a couple of solid reasons *in favor* of partitioning. #1 It seems common, at least to me, that I'll build a server with let's say, 12 disk slots, and we'll

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-13 Thread Freddie Cash
Ah, okay, that makes sense. I wasn't offended, just confused. :) Thanks for the clarification On Oct 13, 2012 2:01 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: 2012-10-12 19:34, Freddie Cash пишет: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: In fact, you can (although not

[zfs-discuss] Using L2ARC on an AdHoc basis.

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Armstrong
Hi Guys, I have a portable pool i.e. one that I carry around in an enclosure. However, any SSD I add for L2ARC, will not be carried around... meaning the cache drive will become unavailable from time to time. My question is Will random removal of the cache drive put the pool into a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS best practice for FreeBSD?

2012-10-13 Thread Ian Collins
On 10/13/12 22:13, Jim Klimov wrote: 2012-10-13 0:41, Ian Collins пишет: On 10/13/12 02:12, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: There are at least a couple of solid reasons *in favor* of partitioning. #1 It seems common, at least to me, that I'll build a server

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using L2ARC on an AdHoc basis.

2012-10-13 Thread Ian Collins
On 10/14/12 10:02, Michael Armstrong wrote: Hi Guys, I have a portable pool i.e. one that I carry around in an enclosure. However, any SSD I add for L2ARC, will not be carried around... meaning the cache drive will become unavailable from time to time. My question is Will random removal

Re: [zfs-discuss] Using L2ARC on an AdHoc basis.

2012-10-13 Thread Michael Armstrong
Ok, so it is possible to remove. Good to know, thanks . I move the pool maybe once a month for a few days, on an otherwise daily used fixed location. So thought the warm up allowance may be worth it. I guess I just wanted to know if adding a cache device was a one way operation or not and