I have a small stack of disks that I was considering putting in a box to build
a backup server. It would only store data that is duplicated elsewhere, so I
wouldn't really need redundancy at the disk layer. The biggest issue is that
the disks are not all the same size. So I can't really do a
no, if you don't use redundancy, each disk you add makes the pool that much
more likely to fair. This is the entire point of raidz .
ZFS stripes data across all vdevs.
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Travis Tabbal tra...@tabbal.net wrote:
I have a small stack of disks that I was considering
Thanks. That's what I expected the case to be. Any reasons this shouldn't work
for strictly backup purposes? Obviously, one disk down kills the pool, but as I
only ever need to care if I'm restoring, that doesn't seem to be such a big
deal. It will be a secondary backup destination for local
