Re: [zfs-discuss] Netapp to Solaris/ZFS issues

2006-12-06 Thread Jim Davis
eric kustarz wrote: What about adding a whole new RAID-Z vdev and dynamicly stripe across the RAID-Zs? Your capacity and performance will go up with each RAID-Z vdev you add. Thanks, that's an interesting suggestion. Have you tried using the automounter as suggested by the linux faq?: h

[zfs-discuss] Netapp to Solaris/ZFS issues

2006-12-06 Thread Jim Davis
We have two aging Netapp filers and can't afford to buy new Netapp gear, so we've been looking with a lot of interest at building NFS fileservers running ZFS as a possible future approach. Two issues have come up in the discussion - Adding new disks to a RAID-Z pool (Netapps handle adding new