[zfs-discuss] Re: Drive Failure w/o Redundancy

2007-06-27 Thread Jef Pearlman
> Jef Pearlman wrote: > > Absent that, I was considering using zfs and just > > having a single pool. My main question is this: what > > is the failure mode of zfs if one of those drives > > either fails completely or has errors? Do I > > permanently lose

[zfs-discuss] Drive Failure w/o Redundancy

2007-06-26 Thread Jef Pearlman
Hi. I'm looking for the best solution to create an expandable heterogeneous pool of drives. I think in an ideal world, there'd be a raid version which could cleverly handle both multiple drive sizes and the addition of new drives into a group (so one could drop in a new drive of arbitrary size,