Re: [zfs-discuss] Best config for different sized disks

2009-11-17 Thread Erik Trimble
Tim Cook wrote: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Bob Friesenhahn mailto:bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us>> wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Tim Cook wrote: Once again I question why you're wasting your time with raid-z. You might as well just stripe across all the drives.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best config for different sized disks

2009-11-16 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Tim Cook wrote: > >> >> Once again I question why you're wasting your time with raid-z. You might >> as well just stripe across all the drives. You're taking a performance >> penalty f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best config for different sized disks

2009-11-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Tim Cook wrote: Once again I question why you're wasting your time with raid-z.  You might as well just stripe across all the drives.  You're taking a performance penalty for a setup that essentially has 0 redundancy.  You lose a 500gb drive, you lose everything. Why do

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best config for different sized disks

2009-11-15 Thread jay
lack of ability to fully manage the 500gb drives. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with SprintSpeed -Original Message- From: Tim Cook Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:59:22 To: Les Pritchard Cc: Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Best config for different sized disks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best config for different sized disks

2009-11-15 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Les Pritchard wrote: > Hi Bob, > > Thanks for the input. I've had a play and created a stripe of the two 500gb > disks and then exported them as a volume. That was the key - I could then > treat it as a regular device and add it with the other 3 disks to create a >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best config for different sized disks

2009-11-15 Thread Les Pritchard
Hi Bob, Thanks for the input. I've had a play and created a stripe of the two 500gb disks and then exported them as a volume. That was the key - I could then treat it as a regular device and add it with the other 3 disks to create a raidz pool of them all. Works very well and I'm sure the owne

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best config for different sized disks

2009-11-15 Thread Brandon High
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >> 3 x1TB and 2 x500GB disks. Is there any way the 2x500GB disks could be put >> into a stiped pool that could then be part of a 4 x1TB RAIDZ pool? > > I expect that you could use Solaris Volume Manager (DiskSuite) to stripe the > 2x500GB dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best config for different sized disks

2009-11-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Les Pritchard wrote: Hi, just wondering if I can get any ideas on my situation. I've used ZFS a lot with equal sized disks and am extremely happy / amazed with what it can offer. However I've encountered a few people who want to use ZFS but have a bunch of different disks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best config for different sized disks

2009-11-15 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Les Pritchard wrote: > Hi, just wondering if I can get any ideas on my situation. I've used ZFS a > lot with equal sized disks and am extremely happy / amazed with what it can > offer. However I've encountered a few people who want to use ZFS but have a > bunch of

[zfs-discuss] Best config for different sized disks

2009-11-15 Thread Les Pritchard
Hi, just wondering if I can get any ideas on my situation. I've used ZFS a lot with equal sized disks and am extremely happy / amazed with what it can offer. However I've encountered a few people who want to use ZFS but have a bunch of different disks but still want the max size of usable space