I have been doing some tests with ZFS with volumes shared through iSCSI and
connected to a windows machine. I created several snapshots and cloned several
of them to attach and test. My zfs list and zfs list -t snapshot looks like
this at the moment (only relevant parts):
datapool
Thanks for the reply!
The reason I'm not waiting until I have the disks is mostly because it will
take me several months to get the funds together and in the meantime, I need
the extra space 1 or 2 drives gets me. Since the sparse files will only take
up the space in use, if I've migrated 2 of
As you can add multiple vdevs to a pool, my suggestion would be to do several
smaller raidz1 or raidz2 vdevs in the pool.
With your setup - assuming 2 HBAs @ 24 drives each your setup would have
yielded 20 drives usable storage (about) (assuming raidz2 with 2 spares on each
HBA) and then mirror
This is an odd question, to be certain, but I need to find out what size a 1.5
TB drive is to help me create a sparse/fake array.
Basically, if I could have someone do a dd if=<1.5 TB disk> of= and
then post the ls -l size of that file, it would greatly assist me.
Here's what I'm doing:
I hav
