[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS - Use h/w raid or not? Thoughts. Considerations.

2007-05-21 Thread Phillip Fiedler
Thanks for the input. So, I'm trying to meld the two replies and come up with a direction for my case and maybe a "rule of thumb" that I can use in the future (i.e., near future until new features come out in zfs) when I have external storage arrays that have built in RAID. At the moment, I'm

[zfs-discuss] ZFS - Use h/w raid or not? Thoughts. Considerations.

2007-05-17 Thread Phillip Fiedler
[b]Given[/b]: A Solaris 10 u3 server with an externally attached disk array with RAID controller(s) [b]Question[/b]: Is it better to create a zpool from a [u]single[/u] external LUN on an external disk array, or is it better to use no RAID on the disk array and just present individual disks t