> > For example, RAID5 MUST have at least three disks, > > RAIDZ can work with only two. > > > > All disks in a RAID5 config MUST be the same size, > > RAIDZ will take any size disks, although it will > warn > > about it, it will work.
... > He was simply trying to decide how to allocate his > disk space. From the user's perspective, RAIDz and > RAID5 operate the same way. The end. Apparently you did not read what I wrote above. They are NOT the same, not even "from the user's perspective", because storage considerations for RAID5 and RAIDZ are DIFFERENT. If you treat RAIDZ as a RAID5 equivalent, you may seriously misconfigure your storage. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
