Awesome! First option sounds great and will probably work fine for me. Again, thanks for the help.
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Ian Collins <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/30/2017 03:09 PM, Lightspoke Discussion wrote: > > Hi - I have a compute node with 6 disks - when the head node sets up > > the CN, it automatically creates a zpool with 2 striped raidz1 arrays > > with 3 disks each. I'd like a 3 striped mirrors. Is there a way to > > specify - what if someone wanted a raidz2 or 3-way mirror? > This should be on the SDC list however... > > There was some work underway to make this task easier, but I don't know > what became of it. > > If I want a stripe of mirrors, I pull all bar one drive before the install > and then build the pool around it later. > > The last couple of CNs I built had too much memory to allow this with the > smallish drives they had so I just let the install go through. I then > snapshotted the pool (modulo dump and swap), sent the snapshot to another > box, rebuilt the CN zones pool and sent the snapshot back. Inelegant but > effective! > > I don't think I have ever wanted the default layout and do wish it could > be specified. > > Ian. > > *smartos-discuss* | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/27009043-32400d7e> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- 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
