[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Optimal strategy (add or replace disks) tobuild a cheap and raidz?

Yes I have tested this virtually with vmware. Replacing disks by bigger ones works great. But the new space becomes usable only after replacing *all* disks. I hoped that new space will be usable after replacing 3 or 4 disks. I think the best strategy for me now is buying 2 x 750 GB Disks and usi

[zfs-discuss] Re: Optimal strategy (add or replace disks) to build a cheap and raidz?

I've an EX-3403 Marvell 88SX6081 Controller. Unfortunately it is revision 07 which seems to be not supported until now. I don't see any disks ... :-( This is already discussed here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=13533 This message posted from opensolaris.org __

[zfs-discuss] Optimal strategy (add or replace disks) to build a cheap and raidz?

Hello, i have an 8 port sata-controller and i don't want to spend the money for 8 x 750 GB Sata Disks right now. I'm thinking about an optimal way of building a growing raidz-pool without loosing any data. As far as i know there are two ways to achieve this: - Adding 750 GB Disks from time to ti

[zfs-discuss] Re: I only see 5.33TB of my 7.25TB zfs-pool. Why?

Now i got the point. Thank you :) Is it true that one group should contain less than 10 disks for performance-reasons? Or am i free to use 16 disks in one group without perfomance-drops? Christian This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-di

[zfs-discuss] I only see 5.33TB of my 7.25TB zfs-pool. Why?

I'm using SunOS cassandra 5.10 Generic_118833-33 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240 cassandra# zpool status pool: tray30 state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM tray30 ONL