[zfs-discuss] mixing WD20EFRX and WD2002FYPS in one pool

2012-11-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
Hi, after a flaky 8-drive Linux RAID10 just shredded about 2 TByte worth of my data at home (conveniently just before I could make a backup) I've decided to both go full redundancy as well as all zfs at home. A couple questions: is there a way to make WD20EFRX (2 TByte, 4k sectors) and WD200FYPS

Re: [zfs-discuss] mixing WD20EFRX and WD2002FYPS in one pool

2012-11-21 Thread Jan Owoc
HI Eugen, On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: Secondly, has anyone managed to run OpenIndiana on an AMD E-350 (MSI E350DM-E33)? If it doesn't work, my only options would be all-in-one with ESXi, FreeNAS, or zfs on Linux. I'm currently running OI 151a7 on an

Re: [zfs-discuss] mixing WD20EFRX and WD2002FYPS in one pool

2012-11-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 08:31:23AM -0700, Jan Owoc wrote: HI Eugen, On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: Secondly, has anyone managed to run OpenIndiana on an AMD E-350 (MSI E350DM-E33)? If it doesn't work, my only options would be all-in-one with ESXi,

Re: [zfs-discuss] mixing WD20EFRX and WD2002FYPS in one pool

2012-11-21 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-21 16:45, Eugen Leitl wrote: Thanks, this is great to know. The box will be headless, and run in text-only mode. I have an Intel NIC in there, and don't intend to use the Realtek port for anything serious. My laptop based on AMD E2 VISION integrated CPU and Realtek Gigabit had

Re: [zfs-discuss] mixing WD20EFRX and WD2002FYPS in one pool

2012-11-21 Thread Timothy Coalson
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: A couple questions: is there a way to make WD20EFRX (2 TByte, 4k sectors) and WD200FYPS (4k internally, reported as 512 Bytes?) work well together on a current OpenIndiana? Which parameters need I give the zfs pool in regards

Re: [zfs-discuss] mixing WD20EFRX and WD2002FYPS in one pool

2012-11-21 Thread Timothy Coalson
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Timothy Coalson tsc...@mst.edu wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: A couple questions: is there a way to make WD20EFRX (2 TByte, 4k sectors) and WD200FYPS (4k internally, reported as 512 Bytes?) work well together on a