Re: [zfs-discuss] Any use for extra drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Anonymous
Generally, you choose your data pool config based on data size, redundancy, and performance requirements. If those are all satisfied with your single mirror, the only thing left for you to do is think about splitting your data off onto a separate pool due to better performance etc. (Because

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any use for extra drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Mark Sandrock
On Mar 24, 2011, at 7:23 AM, Anonymous wrote: Generally, you choose your data pool config based on data size, redundancy, and performance requirements. If those are all satisfied with your single mirror, the only thing left for you to do is think about splitting your data off onto a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any use for extra drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Jacob Ritorto
Right, put some small (30GB or something trivial) disks in for root and then make a nice fast multi-spindle pool for your data. If your 320s are around the same performance as your 500s, you could stripe and mirror them all into a big pool. ZFS will waste the extra 180 on the bigger disks

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
David Magda dma...@ee.ryerson.ca wrote: On Mar 20, 2011, at 09:26, Joerg Schilling wrote: The long term acceptance for ZFS depends on how Oracle will behave past the announced Solaris 11 is released. If they don't Opensource the related ZFS, they will harm the future of ZFS. If they

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Going forward after Oracle - Let's get organized, let's get started.

2011-03-25 Thread Chris Forgeron
I'm curious where ZFS development is going. I've been reading through the lists, and watching Oracle, Nexenta, Illumos, and OpenIndiana for signs of life. The feeling I get is that while there is plenty of userland work being done, there is next to nothing on ZFS development outside of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Going forward after Oracle - Let's get organized, let's get started.

2011-03-25 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Chris Forgeron wrote: I’m curious where ZFS development is going. Forward :-) I’ve been reading through the lists, and watching Oracle, Nexenta, Illumos, and OpenIndiana for signs of life. The feeling I get is that while there is plenty of userland work