On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Slack-Moehrle wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I am looking at ZFS and I get that they call it RAIDZ which is
> similar to RAID 5, but what about RAID 10? Isn't a RAID 10 setup better
> for data protection?

I think so--at the expense of extra disks for a given amount of available
storage.

> So if I have 8 x 1.5tb drives, wouldn't I:
> 
> - mirror drive 1 and 5
> - mirror drive 2 and 6
> - mirror drive 3 and 7
> - mirror drive 4 and 8
> 
> How does one do this with ZFS?

Try this:

    zpool create dpool mirror drive1 drive5 mirror drive2 drive6 \
        mirror drive3 drive7 mirror drive4 drive8

Isn't ZFS great?!

-- 
Rich Teer, Publisher
Vinylphile Magazine

www.vinylphilemag.com
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