Hello list,
I currently have a ZFS zraid1 with 4x 1.5TB drives. The system is a zfs-only FreeBSD 8.1 with zfs version 14. I am concerned that in the event a drive fails, I won't be able to repair the disks in time before another actually fails. I wish to reinstall the OS on a dedicated drive (possibly SSD, doesn't matter, likely UFS) and dedicate the 1.5tb disks to storage only. I have ordered 5x new drives and would like to create a new zraid2 mirrored pool. Then I plan on moving data from pool1 to pool2, removing drives from pool1 and adding them to pool2. My questions are as follows: With a total of 9x 1.5TB drives, should I be using zraid3 instead of zraid2 ? I will not be able to add any more drives so unnecessary parity drives = less storage room. What are the steps for properly removing my drives from the zraid1 pool and inserting them in the zraid2 pool ? Regards, dfl _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
