Re: [zfs-discuss] 4 Internal Disk Configuration

2010-01-14 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 14, 2010, at 10:44 AM, "Mr. T Doodle" wrote: Hello, I have played with ZFS but not deployed any production systems using ZFS and would like some opinions I have a T-series box with 4 internal drives and would like to deploy ZFS with availability and performance in mind ;

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4 Internal Disk Configuration

2010-01-14 Thread Rob Logan
> By partitioning the first two drives, you can arrange to have a small > zfs-boot mirrored pool on the first two drives, and then create a second > pool as two mirror pairs, or four drives in a raidz to support your data. agreed.. 2 % zpool iostat -v capacity operations

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4 Internal Disk Configuration

2010-01-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Mr. T Doodle wrote: I have a T-series box with 4 internal drives and would like to deploy ZFS with availability and performance in mind ;) What would some recommended configurations be? Example: use internal RAID controller to mirror boot drives, and ZFS the other 2?

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4 Internal Disk Configuration

2010-01-14 Thread Peter Tribble
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Mr. T Doodle wrote: > Hello, > > I have played with ZFS but not deployed any production systems using ZFS and > would like some opinions > I have a T-series box with 4 internal drives and would like to deploy ZFS > with availability and performance in mind

Re: [zfs-discuss] 4 Internal Disk Configuration

2010-01-14 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Thu, January 14, 2010 09:44, Mr. T Doodle wrote: > I have played with ZFS but not deployed any production systems using ZFS > and > would like some opinions Opinions I've got :-). Nor am I at all unusual in that regard, on this list :-) :-). > I have a T-series box with 4 internal drive

[zfs-discuss] 4 Internal Disk Configuration

2010-01-14 Thread Mr. T Doodle
Hello, I have played with ZFS but not deployed any production systems using ZFS and would like some opinions I have a T-series box with 4 internal drives and would like to deploy ZFS with availability and performance in mind ;) What would some recommended configurations be? Example: use