Hi, (Main questions at bottom of post)
I recently discovered the joys of ZFS. I have a home file server for backups+media, also hosting some virtual machine (over LAN). I was wondering if I could get some feedback as to whether I have set things up properly. Drives: 20 x 1TB (Mix of seagate and Hitachi) 4 x 2TB (WD20EARS) Also the server has 24GB ram (for the virtual machines, but I can leave lots free for ZFS) I deleted the partitions off of all drives. Then created 4 vdevs each with 5 1TB drives in raidz. I get some errors at bootup about no valid partition table or soemthing on the drives, is this to be expected? Now I would like to add my 4 x 2TB drives, I get a warning message saying that: "Pool uses 5-way raidz and new vdev uses 4-way raidz" Do you think it would be safe to use the -f switch here? My chassis is at its limit in terms of hdd, 24(hot swap bays).. So I would have to stick one inside somewhere.. In case I lost you guys up there, I have 2 main questions: 1 - Errors in dmesg while booting about "Corrupt of Invalid GPT detected" "The secodary GPT is corrupt or invalid" This can be ignored as the drives giving this error are all part of the pool. 2 - I would like to add a 4 drive raidz to my pool, although zfs warns that my current vdevs are all 5-way raidz.. Is it safe (and recommended ) to use the -f switch and add a 4x2TB raidz vdev to the pool? Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
