On 2009-06-22 21:28:26, Artem Belevich wrote: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:31 PM, <xorquew...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > ad11: 953869MB <WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B1 05.00K05> at ata5-slave SATA300 > .. > > ad14: 476940MB <WDC WD5001AALS-00L3B2 01.03B01> at ata7-master SATA300 > > ad16: 476940MB <WDC WD5001AALS-00L3B2 01.03B01> at ata8-master SATA300 > .. > ># zpool create storage raidz ad11 ad14 ad16 > > I seem to have less storage than I'd expect. Is there something wrong > > with this setup? > > You've created raidz pool from 2x500G hard drives and one 1T hard > drive. RAIDZ needs elements of the array to be of the same size, so > you're effectively wasting half of your 1T drive (ad11). Total raw > capacity of the pool is 476G*3 = ~ 1.36T with 2/3of it (913G) usable > for user data -- exactly what zfs shows you.
Thanks, I was afraid of that. I'll swap the 1tb disk for a 500gb today. I was only planning to get 1tb of storage but found that I had a spare 1tb disk laying around so I put that into the array instead. xw _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
