Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on external iSCSI storage

2010-07-01 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- Original Message - I'm new with ZFS, but I have had good success using it with raw physical disks. One of my systems has access to an iSCSI storage target. The underlying physical array is in a propreitary disk storage device from Promise. So the question is, when building a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on external iSCSI storage

2010-07-01 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
The best would be to export the drives in JBOD style, one array per drive. If you rely on the Promise RAID, it you won't be able to recover from silent errors. I'm in the progress of moving from a NexSAN RAID to a JBOD-like style just because of that (we had data corruption on the RAID, stuff