Re: [zfs-discuss] Strategies for expanding storage area of home storage-server

2010-05-17 Thread Andreas Gunnarsson
Thanks for the tips guys, I'll go with 2x 6drive raidz2 vdevs then. Regards Andreas Gunnarsson -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strategies for expanding storage area of home storage-server

2010-05-17 Thread Travis Tabbal
When I did a similar upgrade a while back I did #2. Create a new pool raidz2 with 6 drives, copy the data to it, verify the data, delete the old pool, add old drives + some new drives to another 6 disk raidz2 in the new pool. Performance has been quite good, and the migration was very smooth.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strategies for expanding storage area of home storage-server

2010-05-17 Thread Thomas Burgess
I'd have to agree. Option 2 is probably the best. I recently found myself in need of more space...i had to build an entirely new server...my first one was close to full (it has 20 1TB drives in 3 raidz2 groups 7/7/6 and i was down to 3 TB) I ended up going with a whole new serverwith 2TB dri

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strategies for expanding storage area of home storage-server

2010-05-17 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Andreas Gunnarsson wrote: > I've got a home-storage-server setup with Opensolaris (currently dev build > 134) that is quickly running out of storage space, and I'm looking through > what kind of options I have for expanding it. > > I currently have my "storage-pool

[zfs-discuss] Strategies for expanding storage area of home storage-server

2010-05-17 Thread Andreas Gunnarsson
Hello. I've got a home-storage-server setup with Opensolaris (currently dev build 134) that is quickly running out of storage space, and I'm looking through what kind of options I have for expanding it. I currently have my "storage-pool" in a 4x 1TB drive setup in RAIDZ1, and have room for 8-9