Am 17.09.2013 19:34, schrieb Tanstaafl: > On 2013-09-17 1:07 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: >> On 09/17/2013 01:00 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> >>> But not 6-drive RAID w/ hot spare... ;) Anyone who can't afford to add a >>> single additional drive for the piece of mind has no business buying the >>> RAID card to begin with... >> >> Most of our servers only come with 6 drive bays -- that's why I have >> this speech already rehearsed! > > Ahh... >
So what would be the recommended setup with ZFS and 6 drives? I have to set up a server w/ 8x 1TB in about 2 weeks and consider ZFS as well, at least for data. So root-fs would go onto 2x 1TB hdds with conventional partitioning and something like ext4. 6x 1TB would be available for data ... on one hand for a file-server part ... on the other hand for VMs based on KVM. The server has 64 gigs of RAM so that won't be a problem here. I still wonder if the virtual disks for the VMs will run fine on ZFS ... no way to test it until I am there and set the box up. S
