Re: [zfs-discuss] Complete Linux Noob

2010-06-17 Thread Erik Trimble
On 6/16/2010 6:55 AM, Scott Kaelin wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com mailto:knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com wrote: You can't expand a normal RAID, either, anywhere I've ever seen. Is this true? Depending on the software/hardware you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Complete Linux Noob

2010-06-16 Thread Orvar Korvar
You can't expand a normal RAID, either, anywhere I've ever seen. Is this true? A vdev can be a group of discs configured as raidz1/mirror/etc. An zfs raid consists of several vdev. You can add a new vdev whenever you want. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Complete Linux Noob

2010-06-16 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Orvar Korvar knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com wrote: You can't expand a normal RAID, either, anywhere I've ever seen. Is this true? A vdev can be a group of discs configured as raidz1/mirror/etc. An zfs raid consists of several vdev. You can add a new vdev

[zfs-discuss] Complete Linux Noob

2010-06-15 Thread CarlPalmer
I have been researching different types of raids, and I happened across raidz, and I am blown away. I have been trying to find resources to answer some of my questions, but many of them are either over my head in terms of details, or foreign to me as I am a linux noob, and I have to admit I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Complete Linux Noob

2010-06-15 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
snip/ How do I share these types of raid pools across the network. Or more specifically, how do I access them from Windows based systems? Is there any special trick? Most of your questions are answered here http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Community+Group+zfs/docs/zfslast.pdf

Re: [zfs-discuss] Complete Linux Noob

2010-06-15 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, June 15, 2010 14:13, CarlPalmer wrote: I have been researching different types of raids, and I happened across raidz, and I am blown away. I have been trying to find resources to answer some of my questions, but many of them are either over my head in terms of details, or foreign to