Dick Davies wrote:
On 12/09/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dick Davies wrote:
> The only real use I'd see would be for redundant copies
> on a single disk, but then why wouldn't I just add a disk?
Some systems have physical space for only a single drive - think most
laptops!
True - I'm a laptop user myself. But as I said, I'd assume the whole disk
would fail (it does in my experience).
Indeed and that is the failure I had recently - complete death of disk
no longer visible even by the BIOS.
If your hardware craps differently to mine, you could do a similar thing
with partitions (or even files) as vdevs. Wouldn't be any less reliable.
One downside to that being that ZFS can perform better, due to write
cache IIRC, when given the whole disk - though in the laptop case this
isn't applicable until ZFS boot is ready.
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Darren J Moffat
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