Re: [zfs-discuss] Consequences of adding a root vdev later?

2007-09-10 Thread Mario Goebbels
> I'm more worried about the availability of my data in the even of a > controller failure. I plan on using 4-chan SATA controllers and > creating multiple 4 disk RAIDZ vdevs. I want to use a single pool, but > it looks like I can't as controller failure = ZERO access, although the > same can be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Consequences of adding a root vdev later?

2007-09-10 Thread Mario Goebbels
> If I have a pool that made up of 2 raidz vdevs, all data is striped across? > So if I somehow lose a vdev I lose all my data?! If your vdevs are RAID-Z's, there has to be a rare coincidence to happen to break the pool (two disks failing in the same RAID-Z)... But yeah, ZFS spreads blocks to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Consequences of adding a root vdev later?

2007-09-10 Thread Curtis Schiewek
So, If I have a pool that made up of 2 raidz vdevs, all data is striped across? So if I somehow lose a vdev I lose all my data?! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensola

Re: [zfs-discuss] Consequences of adding a root vdev later?

2007-09-06 Thread Richard Elling
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 14:26 -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > >> AFAIK, nobody has characterized resilvering, though this is about the 4th >> time this week someone has brought the topic up. Has anyone done work here >> that we don't know about? If so, please speak up :-)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Consequences of adding a root vdev later?

2007-09-05 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 14:26 -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > AFAIK, nobody has characterized resilvering, though this is about the 4th > time this week someone has brought the topic up. Has anyone done work here > that we don't know about? If so, please speak up :-) I haven't been conducting contr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Consequences of adding a root vdev later?

2007-09-05 Thread Richard Elling
Solaris wrote: > Is it possible to force ZFS to "nicely" re-organize data inside a zpool > after a new root level vdev has been introduced? Currently, ZFS will not reorganize the existing data for such cases. You can force this to occur by copying the data and removing the old, but that seems lik

[zfs-discuss] Consequences of adding a root vdev later?

2007-09-05 Thread Solaris
Is it possible to force ZFS to "nicely" re-organize data inside a zpool after a new root level vdev has been introduced? e.g. Take a pool with 1 vdev consisting of a 2 disk mirror. Populate some arbitrary files using about 50% of the capacity. Then add another 2 mirrored disks to the pool. It s