Re: [zfs-discuss] Any use for extra drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Anonymous
> Generally, you choose your data pool config based on data size, > redundancy, and performance requirements. If those are all satisfied with > your single mirror, the only thing left for you to do is think about > splitting your data off onto a separate pool due to better performance > etc. (Bec

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any use for extra drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Mark Sandrock
On Mar 24, 2011, at 7:23 AM, Anonymous wrote: >> Generally, you choose your data pool config based on data size, >> redundancy, and performance requirements. If those are all satisfied with >> your single mirror, the only thing left for you to do is think about >> splitting your data off onto a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any use for extra drives?

2011-03-25 Thread Jacob Ritorto
Right, put some small (30GB or something trivial) disks in for root and then make a nice fast multi-spindle pool for your data. If your 320s are around the same performance as your 500s, you could stripe and mirror them all into a big pool. ZFS will waste the extra 180 on the bigger disks but

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
David Magda wrote: > On Mar 20, 2011, at 09:26, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > The long term acceptance for ZFS depends on how Oracle will behave past the > > announced Solaris 11 is released. If they don't Opensource the related ZFS, > > they will harm the future of ZFS. If they Opensource it ag

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Going forward after Oracle - Let's get organized, let's get started.

2011-03-25 Thread Chris Forgeron
I'm curious where ZFS development is going. I've been reading through the lists, and watching Oracle, Nexenta, Illumos, and OpenIndiana for signs of life. The feeling I get is that while there is plenty of userland work being done, there is next to nothing on ZFS development outside of the Orac

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Going forward after Oracle - Let's get organized, let's get started.

2011-03-25 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Chris Forgeron wrote: > I’m curious where ZFS development is going. Forward :-) > I’ve been reading through the lists, and watching Oracle, Nexenta, Illumos, > and OpenIndiana for signs of life. > > The feeling I get is that while there is plenty of userland work