14+2 or 7+1
On 8/22/08, Miles Nordin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> "m" == mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > m> can you combine two zpools together? > > no. You can have many vdevs in one pool. for example you can have a > mirror vdev and a raidz2 vdev in the same pool. You can also destroy > pool B, and add its (now empty) devices to pool A. but once two > separate pools are created you can't later smush them together. > > but...since you bring it up, that is exactly what I would do with the > 16 disks: make two pools. I'd make one of the pools compressed, make > backups onto it with zfs send/recv, and leave it exported most of the > time. Every week or so I'd spin up the disks, import the pool, write > another incremental backup onto it, scrub it, export it, and spin the > disks back down. > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
