Hello Peter, Wednesday, June 28, 2006, 1:11:29 AM, you wrote:
PT> On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 17:50, Erik Trimble wrote: PT> You really need some level of redundancy if you're using HW raid. PT> Using plain stripes is downright dangerous. 0+1 vs 1+0 and all PT> that. Seems to me that the simplest way to go is to use zfs to mirror PT> HW raid5, preferably with the HW raid5 LUNs being completely PT> independent disks attached to completely independent controllers PT> with no components or datapaths in common. well, it will give you less than half your raw storage. Due to costs I belive in most cases it won't be acceptable. People are using raid-5 mostly due to costs and you are proposing something worse (in terms of available logical storage) than mirroring. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
