Re: [zfs-discuss] Any use for extra drives?

2011-03-28 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
If you plan to generate a lot of data, why use the root pool? You can put the /home and /proj filesystems (/export/...) on a separate pool, thus off-loading the root pool. I don't, it's a development box with not alot happening. My two cents, thanks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any use for extra drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Anonymous
Generally, you choose your data pool config based on data size, redundancy, and performance requirements. If those are all satisfied with your single mirror, the only thing left for you to do is think about splitting your data off onto a separate pool due to better performance etc. (Because

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any use for extra drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Mark Sandrock
On Mar 24, 2011, at 7:23 AM, Anonymous wrote: Generally, you choose your data pool config based on data size, redundancy, and performance requirements. If those are all satisfied with your single mirror, the only thing left for you to do is think about splitting your data off onto a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any use for extra drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Jacob Ritorto
Right, put some small (30GB or something trivial) disks in for root and then make a nice fast multi-spindle pool for your data. If your 320s are around the same performance as your 500s, you could stripe and mirror them all into a big pool. ZFS will waste the extra 180 on the bigger disks

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any use for extra drives?

2011-03-24 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Nomen Nescio Hi ladies and gents, I've got a new Solaris 10 development box with ZFS mirror root using 500G drives. I've got several extra 320G drives and I'm wondering if there's any way I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any use for extra drives?

2011-03-24 Thread Mark Sandrock
On Mar 24, 2011, at 5:42 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Nomen Nescio Hi ladies and gents, I've got a new Solaris 10 development box with ZFS mirror root using 500G drives. I've got several

[zfs-discuss] Any use for extra drives?

2011-03-23 Thread Nomen Nescio
Hi ladies and gents, I've got a new Solaris 10 development box with ZFS mirror root using 500G drives. I've got several extra 320G drives and I'm wondering if there's any way I can use these to good advantage in this box. I've got enough storage for my needs with the 500G pool. At this point I