On Wed, 21 May 2008, Orvar Korvar wrote: > Ive heard that for the Thumper which uses 48 drives, you should not > make them all into one zpool. Instead you should make them into several > vdevs. And then you combine all vdevs into one zpool? Is it so? Why do
Right. A vdev is the smallest storage unit ZFS knows about. What the advice is saying is that you should create a number of vdevs from several devices (how many depends on what sort of reducndancy requirements you have), and the make a pool from the resulting vdevs. > you do that? Why not several zpools? Why have several zpools? -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
