On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:54:37PM -0700, Ryan Rhodes wrote: > I want one storage pool (mount), because I don't want to navigate through > different drives/mounts to go through my movies/music/whatever. I want to > at least be able to add drives later of the same size and still have one > pool.
Just to address a slight confusion, you can have a single pool with many associated RAID vdevs (stripes) and many different filesystems (mount points). > zpool create... zpool add... I can't tell from what you're saying... for > instance I want to buy 2 1TB drives for a 4 or 5 bay setup. Later I want > to add 1 TB at a time, until I fill the bays. It sounds like if I started > with 2 drives, and then create a new stripe with only one drive... then > that new stripe won't have parity... what happens if that drive fails? You just have to add a stripe at a time rather than a single disk at a time. Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl
