Hi guys, I've been reading a lot but so far I haven't encountered any answer to my question on using ZFS. I thought I'd come on in here since most everyone here knows a lot about ZFS. I'm still researching (a full two months already) so please bear with me.
1st - Is it recommended that my ZPOOL (RAIDZ with 4x250GB SATA drives) also contains my OpenSolaris boot? I mean, will that work and is it optimal? (trying to get away with least number of hard drives) 2nd - If I have 6 drives (2x80GB IDE, 4x250GB SATA) and use both IDE drives as mirrored boot drive and use the SATA drives for a RAIDZ file storage drive, what happens when the motherboard takes a crap since Im using all IDE and SATA ports in my motherboard? can I simply change the motherboard with the same one (since I have an exact same motherboard) and "restart" the computer and everything will be back as if nothing even happened? 3rd - What happens if BOTH my boot drive (Mirrored) takes a crap at the unfortunate time of, say, a holiday? How can I get the data back from my RAIDZ pool? can I use the LiveCD? or simply install OpenSolaris onto a spare drive and import the pool? Available hardware for this is an: Intel C2D 2.66Ghz MSI P35 NEO (1xIDE, 5xSATA, 1Gb LAN) Nvidia 7600GS 2x80GB 7200rpm IDE Maxtor - Hopefully a ZFS Mirrored boot drive 4x250GB 7200rpm SATA2 Samsung - Hopefully a ZFS RAIDZ storage drive -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
