On Mon, February 22, 2010 13:21, Gavin Maltby wrote:
> On 22 February 2010 13:06, Murray Blakeman
> <Murray.Blakeman at synergy.com.au> wrote:
>
>>
>> A 10GB Boot/Root pool mirrored across 5 drives
>
> You'll want a much bigger root pool that that, I suspect. 10G is (just)
> enough for a single boot environment, but it's always nice to
> have room for several.
>
> I always like to have physically separate root disks. If you have
> space for them I'd get a couple of smaller disks to act as
> a root mirror (e.g., I have 2 x 250GB drives for a mirrored
> rpool) and then use all of your big data disks in a data
> pool.
>
Just to second what he said.
I have 2x160Gb disks in a mirrored root pool, and (at the moment) 4x500Gb
disks in a RAIDZ.
Much safer as if something takes out my root, like a dud update or the
like, my data space is safe(r).
Also, IIRC, ZFS works better when given *entire* disks to work with,
rather than slices.
Cheers,
Gary B-)
