OK, so I made progress today. FreeBSD see's all of my drives, ZFS is acting correct.
Now for me confusion. RAIDz3 # zpool create datastore raidz3 da0 da1 da2 da3 da4 da5 da6 da7 Gives: 'raidz3' no such GEOM providor # I am looking at the best practices guide and I am confused about adding a hot spare. Wont that happen with the above command or do I really just zpool create datastore raidz3 da0 da1 da2 da3 da4 da5 and then issue the hotspare command twice for da6 and da7? -Jason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Slack-Moehrle" <mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com> To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 12:13:58 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10 >> Can someone explain in terms of usable space RAIDZ vs RAIDZ2 vs RAIDZ3? With >> 8 x 1.5tb? >> I apologize for seeming dense, I just am confused about non-stardard raid >> setups, they seem tricky. > raidz "eats" one disk. Like RAID5 > raidz2 digests another one. Like RAID6 > raidz3 yet another one. Like ... hmmmm... So: RAIDZ would be 8 x 1.5tb = 12tb - 1.5tb = 10.5tb RAIDZ2 would be 8 x 1.5tb = 12tb - 3.0tb = 9.0tb RAIDZ3 would be 8 x 1.5tb = 12tb - 4.5tb = 7.5tb But not really that usable space for each since the mirroring? So do you not mirror drives with RAIDZ2 or RAIDZ3 because you would have nothing for space left.... -Jason _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
