Since all my data are on this PC and I have many externals HDDs (around 3Tb) I think I'm gonna go with Mirrored setup, protect my data.. but out of curiosity, if someday I decide I want 500Gb, can mirrored setup be switched to single devs on the fly or a complete array rebuild is necessary?
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 16:13, Alex Blewitt <alex.blew...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you want any kind of data guarantee, you need to go for a mirrored pool. > If you don't want a data guarantee, you can create a single pool > (non-mirrored) of the two devs which will give you 500Gb. The key is in the > 'zpool create' command > > zpool create twofifty mirror disk1 disk2 > zpool create fivehundred disk1 disk2 > > Alex > > On Nov 8, 2009, at 15:09, Wael Nasreddine (a.k.a eMxyzptlk) wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm sure this question has been asked many times already, but I couldn't > find the answer myself. Anyway I have a laptop with 2 identical hard disks > 250Gb each, I'm currently using Linux on RAID0 which gave me ~500Gb.. > > I'm planning to switch to FreeBSD but I want to know before I do, what can > I get with these hard disks? do I get ~500Gb or less? can ZFS be setup to > use RAIDz with only 2 hard disks ? > > Thank you > > -- > Wael Nasreddine > > Weem Chief-Development Officer - http://www.weem.com > > Blog : http://wael.nasreddine.com > E-mail : wael.nasredd...@weem.com > gTalk : wael.nasredd...@gmail.com > Tel : +33.6.32.94.70.13 > Skype : eMxyzptlk > Twitter : @eMxyzptlk > > PGP: 1024D/C8DD18A2 06F6 1622 4BC8 4CEB D724 DE12 5565 3945 C8DD 18A2 > > .: An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs, > would never make a good program. (L. Torvalds 1995) :. > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > > -- Wael Nasreddine Weem Chief-Development Officer - http://www.weem.com Blog : http://wael.nasreddine.com E-mail : wael.nasredd...@weem.com gTalk : wael.nasredd...@gmail.com Tel : +33.6.32.94.70.13 Skype : eMxyzptlk Twitter : @eMxyzptlk PGP: 1024D/C8DD18A2 06F6 1622 4BC8 4CEB D724 DE12 5565 3945 C8DD 18A2 .: An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs, would never make a good program. (L. Torvalds 1995) :.
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