Albert, On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:55:21AM -0800, Albert Frenz wrote: > hi there, > > maybe this is a stupid question, yet i haven't found an answer anywhere ;) > let say i got 3x 1,5tb hdds, can i create equal partitions out of each and > make a raid5 out of it? sure the safety would drop, but that is not that > important to me. with roughly 500gb partitions and the raid5 forumla of > n-1*smallest drive i should be able to get 4tb storage instead of 3tb when > using 3x 1,5tb in a normal raid5. >
Yes, it is possible to create partitions and configure it the way you mentioned. However, along with the drop in the safety, the performance will also drop because of potential seek delays. Thanks and regards, Sanjeev _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
