I think the point, Chester, which everyone seems to be dancing around
or missing, is that your planning may need to go back to the drawing board
on this one. Absorb the resources out there for how to best configure
your pools and vdevs, *then* implement. That's the most efficient way to go
about
I guess it's all in what you want. At the end of the day, you have to weigh
the pros and cons and decide what is right for you. To me, adding drives in
mirrored or raidz groups is a small price to pay for the speed, ease of
administration, and data integrity that zfs offers. Snapshots and clones
Lets not forget despite the fact us lunatic fringe use OpenSolaris on
anything we can get our hands on. Sun Microsystems use Solaris to run
mission critical environments and adding disk in "chunks" like you have
to do in ZFS to a commercial organisation is no big deal. The data is
worth far mo
Why not just do simple mirrored vdevs? or use cheaper 1tb drives for the
second vdev?
I don't knowit's up to you...To me the benefits of ZFS far outweigh the
limitations. Also, in my opinion, when you are expanding your storage, it's
a good idea to add it in chunks like this...adding a 4 drive
Thanks for the info so far. Yes, I understand that you can add more vdevs, but
at what cost? With the 2TB drives costing $300 each, I wanted to get more or
less the bare minimum and then add more drives once I filled the capacity. I
understand that raidz1 is similar to RAID5 (it can recover f
Yes, vdevs allow you to expand your zpool. One zpool consists of groups of hard
drives. Your zpool consists of one group of drives. That group contains 4
drives that are 2TB. You can easily add another group of drives to your zpool.
You can not change the number of discs of a group, but you can
While it is true that you can not add a single device to a raidz vdev, you
can easily add more vdevs, and this is by far the best way to grow because
each vdev adds much speed to the array. Raidz is more advanced than raid5,
the fact that your card doesn't do the raid calculations is not a
limitat
Hi guys,
Previously, I had three 1TB drives in my desktop using the Intel's southbridge
RAID for storage. The only problem with that is every time Windows Vista took
a dump, I would be in jeopardy of corrupting the storage space; thus, I decided
to have a dedicated machine just for serving up
