Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID Z stripes

2010-08-10 Thread Haudy Kazemi
Ian Collins wrote: On 08/11/10 05:16 AM, Terry Hull wrote: So do I understand correctly that really the "Right" thing to do is to build a pool not only with a consistent strip width, but also to build it with drives on only one size? It also sounds like from a practical point of view that bui

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID Z stripes

2010-08-10 Thread Ian Collins
On 08/11/10 05:16 AM, Terry Hull wrote: So do I understand correctly that really the "Right" thing to do is to build a pool not only with a consistent strip width, but also to build it with drives on only one size? It also sounds like from a practical point of view that building the pool full-s

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID Z stripes

2010-08-10 Thread Ian Collins
On 08/10/10 10:09 PM, Phil Harman wrote: On 10 Aug 2010, at 10:22, Ian Collins wrote: On 08/10/10 09:12 PM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: Another option - use the new 2TB drives to swap out the existing 1TB drives. If you can find another use for the swapped out drives, this works well, and avoi

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID Z stripes

2010-08-10 Thread Terry Hull
> From: Phil Harman > Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:24:52 +0100 > To: Ian Collins > Cc: Terry Hull , "zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org" > > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID Z stripes > > On 10 Aug 2010, at 08:49, Ian Collins wrote: > >> On 08/10/10 06:2

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID Z stripes

2010-08-10 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Terry Hull > > I am wanting to build a server with 16 - 1TB drives with 2 – 8 drive > RAID Z2 arrays striped together.   However, I would like the capability > of adding additional stripes of 2

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID Z stripes

2010-08-10 Thread Phil Harman
On 10 Aug 2010, at 10:22, Ian Collins wrote: > On 08/10/10 09:12 PM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: >> Phil Harman wrote: >>> On 10 Aug 2010, at 08:49, Ian Collins wrote: On 08/10/10 06:21 PM, Terry Hull wrote: > I am wanting to build a server with 16 - 1TB drives with 2 – 8 drive RAID > Z2

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID Z stripes

2010-08-10 Thread Ian Collins
On 08/10/10 09:12 PM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: Phil Harman wrote: On 10 Aug 2010, at 08:49, Ian Collins wrote: On 08/10/10 06:21 PM, Terry Hull wrote: I am wanting to build a server with 16 - 1TB drives with 2 – 8 drive RAID Z2 arrays striped together. However, I would like the capability of ad

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID Z stripes

2010-08-10 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Phil Harman wrote: On 10 Aug 2010, at 08:49, Ian Collins wrote: On 08/10/10 06:21 PM, Terry Hull wrote: I am wanting to build a server with 16 - 1TB drives with 2 – 8 drive RAID Z2 arrays striped together. However, I would like the capability of adding additional stripes of 2TB drives in the

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID Z stripes

2010-08-10 Thread Phil Harman
On 10 Aug 2010, at 08:49, Ian Collins wrote: On 08/10/10 06:21 PM, Terry Hull wrote: I am wanting to build a server with 16 - 1TB drives with 2 – 8 dri ve RAID Z2 arrays striped together. However, I would like the capa bility of adding additional stripes of 2TB drives in the future. W ill th

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID Z stripes

2010-08-10 Thread Ian Collins
On 08/10/10 06:21 PM, Terry Hull wrote: I am wanting to build a server with 16 - 1TB drives with 2 – 8 drive RAID Z2 arrays striped together. However, I would like the capability of adding additional stripes of 2TB drives in the future. Will this be a problem? I thought I read it is best to kee

[zfs-discuss] RAID Z stripes

2010-08-09 Thread Terry Hull
I am wanting to build a server with 16 - 1TB drives with 2 ­ 8 drive RAID Z2 arrays striped together. However, I would like the capability of adding additional stripes of 2TB drives in the future. Will this be a problem? I thought I read it is best to keep the stripes the same width and was pl

[zfs-discuss] RAID Z stripes

2010-08-09 Thread Terry Hull
I am wanting to build a server with 16 - 1TB drives with 2 ­ 8 drive RAID Z2 arrays striped together. However, I would like the capability of adding additional stripes of 2TB drives in the future. Will this be a problem? I thought I read it is best to keep the stripes the same width and was pl