Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing RAIDZ and RAIDZ2 zvols in the same zpool

2008-03-12 Thread Adam Leventhal
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:59:53PM +, A Darren Dunham wrote: > It's not *bad*, but as far as I'm concerned, it's wasted space. > > You have to deal with the pool as a whole as having single-disk > redundancy for failure modes. So the fact that one section of it has > two-disk redundancy doesn

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing RAIDZ and RAIDZ2 zvols in the same zpool

2008-03-12 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:41:21AM -0500, Scott Gaspard wrote: > I have a customer who has implemented the following layout: As you can > see, he has mostly raidz zvols but has one raidz2 in the same zpool. > What are the implications here? Is this a bad thing to do? Please > elaborate. It's

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing RAIDZ and RAIDZ2 zvols in the same zpool

2008-03-12 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Scott, Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 4:41:21 PM, you wrote: SG> I have a customer who has implemented the following layout: As you can SG> see, he has mostly raidz zvols but has one raidz2 in the same zpool. SG> What are the implications here? Is this a bad thing to do? Please SG> elabora