Hi, I am new to Solaris, but intrigued by ZFS. I am planning to set up a home NAS (SAMBA/CIFS on ZFS) with my rough plan being to boot SXDE from an IDE drive, then set up a single storage pool with 4 SATA drives (2 x 250GB & 2 x 500GB) on a single controller.
My main concerns are redundancy (1-2 parity) & maximum storage size; I am not concerned about performance. I had a couple of questions regarding this: 1. Considering the drives are different sizes, would I be better off setting up 2 x 2-way mirrors separately and then adding them to the pool? 2. If I use RAIDZ instead of mirroring, will I always be protected against a single disk failure (even though the disks are different sizes)? 3. With RAIDZ, is there anyway to determine where an individual file resides? Specifically, is there any way to determine whether the parity information for the file (or the User Copy) is residing on a separate device/drive? I know that ZFS 'tries' to do it, but can you check? 4. Assume that 12 months later I want to remove the smaller drives and replace them with larger (TB) drives. Is it easy enough to remove them (presumably one at a time) without losing any data? 5. Can anyone recommend a cheap (but reliable) SATA PCI or PCIX card? Again, performance is not that important. Thanks in advance. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
