On Nov 9, 2011, at 6:08 PM, Francois Dion wrote:
> Some laptops have pc card and expresscard slots, and you can get an adapter
> for sd card, so you could set up your os non mirrored and just set up home on
> a pair of sd cards. Something like
> http://www.amazon.com/Sandisk-SDAD109A11-Digital-
Some laptops have pc card and expresscard slots, and you can get an adapter for
sd card, so you could set up your os non mirrored and just set up home on a
pair of sd cards. Something like
http://www.amazon.com/Sandisk-SDAD109A11-Digital-Card-Express/dp/B000W3QLLW
I've done this in the past, var
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-
> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov
>
> 1) Use a ZFS mirror of two SSDs
> - seems too pricey
> 2) Use a HDD with redundant data (copies=2 or mirroring
> over two partitions), and an SSD for L2ARC (+maybe ZIL)
>
On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Jim Klimov wrote:
Thanks, Bob, I figured so...
And would copies=2 save me from problems of data loss and/or
inefficient resilvering? Does all required data and metadata
get duplicated this way, so any broken sector can be amended?
I read on this list recently, that some metad
2011-11-08 23:36, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Jim Klimov wrote:
Second question regards single-HDD reliability: I can
do ZFS mirroring over two partitions/slices, or I can
configure "copies=2" for the datasets. Either way I
think I can get protection from bad blocks of whatever
n
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Jim Klimov wrote:
Second question regards single-HDD reliability: I can
do ZFS mirroring over two partitions/slices, or I can
configure "copies=2" for the datasets. Either way I
think I can get protection from bad blocks of whatever
nature, as long as the spindle spins. Can t
Hello all,
I am thinking about a new laptop. I see that there are
a number of higher-performance models (incidenatlly, they
are also marketed as "gamer" ones) which offer two SATA
2.5" bays and an SD flash card slot. Vendors usually
position the two-HDD bay part as either "get lots of
capacity
