Sorry, no I did not mean you could do 3-way mirror with 2 disks, you'd need 3
disks for that. I had the impression you were looking to use 6 disks in one
pool, and if you use 2-way mirrors, then that would imply 3 pairs of disks,
that is where that 3 came from.
One pool can have multiple vdevs
In message <4d448a2b-cd99-78a4-24cd-fd8c1f500...@xdrv.uk>, James via
openindiana-discuss writes:
>3 way mirror has 3 discs in a single "mirror". You have three copies of
>the data and double redundancy.
>
># zpool create dpool mirror c3t0d0 c3t1d0 c3t2d0
># zpool status dpool
> pool: dpool
>
On 09/11/2020 16:49, Harry Putnam wrote:
Someone (T Coalson)mentioned 3 way mirror with 2 disks. I must admit
I do not understand how that is even possible. I guess my concept of
mirror is stuck at 2 matched disks set as mirror, in a pool.
3 way mirror has 3 discs in a single "mirror". You
Bob Friesenhahn writes:
[...]
> With only a small number of disks (and to aid human comprehension when
> something goes wrong) I suggest using mirrors with a regular pool
> 'scrub' schedule. With more disks raidz2 starts making sense but
> raidz2 is less flexible.
Thanks to all posters, lots o
