At the moment is just one pool with a plan to add the 500gb drives... What
would be recommend?
-Original Message-
From: Brandon High
Sent: 17 February 2010 01:00
To: Tiernan OToole
Cc: Robert Milkowski ; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Plan for upgrading a ZFS
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Tiernan OToole wrote:
> Cool... Thanks for the advice! Buy why would it be a good idea to change
> layout on bigger disks?
On top of the reasons Bob gave, your current layout will be very
unbalanced after adding devices. You can't currently add more devices
to a
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Tiernan OToole wrote:
Cool... Thanks for the advice! Buy why would it be a good idea to
change layout on bigger disks?
Larger disks take longer to resilver, have a higher probability of
encountering an error during resilvering or normal use, and are often
slower. This m
Cool... Thanks for the advice! Buy why would it be a good idea to change layout
on bigger disks?
-Original Message-
From: Brandon High
Sent: 16 February 2010 18:26
To: Tiernan OToole
Cc: Robert Milkowski ; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org
Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Plan for upgrading a ZFS
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Tiernan OToole wrote:
> So, does that work with RAIDZ1 and 2 pools?
Yes. Replace all the disks in one vdev, and that vdev will become
larger. Your disk layout won't change though - You'll still have a
raidz vdev, a raidz2 vdev. It might be a good idea to revise th
So, does that work with RAIDZ1 and 2 pools?
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Robert Milkowski wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Tiernan OToole wrote:
>
> Good morning all.
>>
>> I am in the process of building my V1 SAN for media storage in house, and
>> i
>> am already thinkg ov the V2 build..
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Tiernan OToole wrote:
Good morning all.
I am in the process of building my V1 SAN for media storage in house, and i
am already thinkg ov the V2 build...
Currently, there are 8 250Gb hdds and 3 500Gb disks. the 8 250s are in a
RAIDZ2 array, and the 3 500s will be in RAIDZ
Yes send and receive will do the job. see zfs manpage for details.
James Dickens
http://uadmin.blogspot.com
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Tiernan OToole wrote:
> Good morning all.
>
> I am in the process of building my V1 SAN for media storage in house, and i
> am already thinkg ov the V2 b
Good morning all.
I am in the process of building my V1 SAN for media storage in house, and i
am already thinkg ov the V2 build...
Currently, there are 8 250Gb hdds and 3 500Gb disks. the 8 250s are in a
RAIDZ2 array, and the 3 500s will be in RAIDZ1...
At the moment, the current case is quite f
