Get a cheap 5th SATA drive to act as your boot drive, install Solaris on that, and then let ZFS use the whole of the remaining 4 drives.
That gives you performance benefits, and it means it's very easy to recover if your boot drive fails - just re-install Solaris and "zpool import" the raid array. The raid data is stored on the drives so you can even take those 4 drives and fit them to another machine if you need the data quick. ZFS doesn't even care what order the drives are attached in. To install Solaris, just boot from the DVD and follow the prompts. I managed that as a windows admin with no Linux or Solaris experience so you should be fine :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
