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Back before you got much of an install-time layout choice on the zpool, I set up some 1u machines with raidz2 on a 4 x LFF disk array by going behind SmartOS' back and creating the pool, then zfs send | zfs recv for the entire old zones pool. Machines I set up this way have been working fine for years, with acceptable-to-us performance (yes, obviously it could always be better). We like raidz2 because of the location of these machines and our travel schedules - if a disk croaks it might be a week or two until it's possible to replace and resilver. Here in the future with specifyable raidz type on install, SmartOS says "no acceptable raidz2 layout" when I try to set up that complement of disks. A trivial change at node_modules/disklayout.js line 325 would fix this problem by including 4 drives in the special case that already handles 5 and 6, but just making the change and issuing a pull request without explaining my situation and getting consensus that this is in fact a proper thing to do, seems unlikely to get the results I want. Any thoughts on how we could accommodate setting up raidz2 on 4 drives as part of a normal install without screwing up other folks' workflow or other deleterious side effects? Thanks, -r ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
