Wow Craig - thank you so much for that thorough response.
I am only using 1 vdev and I didn't realize two things:
1) that 50 GB on each of the 300s is essentially wasted. I thought it
would spread 300 GB of parity across all 6 disks, leaving me with 1350
GB of "data" space. Instead, you're saying
Brent,
Brent Wagner wrote:
> Can someone point me to a document describing how available space in a
> zfs is calculated or review the data below and tell me what I'm
> missing?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -Brent
> ===
> I have a home project with 3x250 GB+3x300 GB in raidz, so I expect to
> lose 1x3
Can someone point me to a document describing how available space in a
zfs is calculated or review the data below and tell me what I'm
missing?
Thanks in advance,
-Brent
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I have a home project with 3x250 GB+3x300 GB in raidz, so I expect to
lose 1x300 GB to parity.
Total size:1650GB
Total siz
