I'm setting up a ZFS fileserver using a bunch of spare drives. I'd like some redundancy and to maximize disk usage, so my plan was to use raid-z. The problem is that the drives are considerably mismatched and I haven't found documentation (though I don't see why it shouldn't be possible) to stripe smaller drives together to match bigger ones. The drives are: 1x750, 2x500, 2x400, 2x320, 2x250. Is it possible to accomplish the following with those drives:
raid-z 750 500+250=750 500+250=750 400+320=720 400+720=720 and if so what is the command? The only way I've thought to implement this is to create striped pools for each subset of drives, create a file that fills the whole pool, and use the file as a vdev. That seems like a nasty workaround though, and an unnecessary one. If there's any trouble understanding the question I can elaborate a bit. Any advice is greatly appreciated! This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
