mick crane wrote: > I think I'll go with the first and last suggestion to just have 2 disks > in raid1. > It seems that properly you'd want 2 disks in raid for the OS, 2 at least > for the pool and maybe 1 for the cache. > Don't have anything big enough I could put 5 disks in. > I could probably get 3 disks in. Install the OS on one and then dd that > to another and put that in a drawer and have another 2 disks as the zfs > pool. I might have a fiddle about and see what goes on.
Hi, I have not followed this thread closely, but my advise is keep it as simple as possible. Very often people here overcomplicate things - geeks and freaks - in the good sense - but still if you do not know ZFS or can not afford the infrastructure for that, just leave it. In my usecase I came with following solution: md0 - boot disk (ext3) md1 - root disk (ext4) md2 - swap md3 - LVM for user data (encrypted + xfs) I have this on two disks that were replaced and "grown" from 200GB to 1TB over the past 18y. Some of the Seagates I used in the beginning died and RAID1 payed off. Planning to move to GPT next md0 will be converted to EFI disk (FAT32) or I will just create one additional partition on each disk for the EFI stuff. I'm not sure if I need it at all, so I must be really bored to touch this.
