Hello everyone,
I'm new to ZFS and OpenSolaris, and I've been reading the docs on ZFS (the pdf
The Last Word on Filesystems and wikipedia of course), and I'm trying to
understand something.
So ZFS is self-healing, correct? This is accomplished via parity and/or
metadata of some sort on the
OK so in my (admittedly basic) understanding of raidz and raidz2, these
technologies are very similar to raid5 and raid6. BUT if you set up one disk
as a raidz vdev, you (obviously) can't maintain data after a disk failure, but
you are protected against data corruption that is NOT a result of
Sooo... I've been reading a lot in various places. The conclusion I've drawn
is this:
I can create raidz vdevs in groups of 3 disks and add them to my zpool to be
protected against 1 drive failure. This is the current status of growing
protected space in raidz. Am I correct here?
This
THANK YOU VERY MUCH EVERYONE!!
You have been very helpful and my questions are (mostly) resolved. While I am
not (and probably will not become) a ZFS expert, I now at least feel confident
that I can accomplish what I want to do.
My last comment on this is this:
I realize that ZFS is designed
