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

[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