[zfs-discuss] ZFS Newbie question

2011-02-07 Thread Gaikokujin Kyofusho
I’ve spend a few hours reading through the forums and wiki and honestly my head is spinning. I have been trying to study up on either buying or building a box that would allow me to add drives of varying sizes/speeds/brands (adding more later etc) and still be able to use the full space of drive

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/Drobo (Newbie) Question

2011-02-07 Thread Gaikokujin Kyofusho
Thank you kebabber. I will try out indiana and virtual box to play around with it a bit. Just to make sure I understand your example, if I say had a 4x2tb drives, 2x750gb, 2x1.5tb drives etc then i could make 3 groups (perhaps 1 raidz1 + 1 mirrored + 1 mirrored), in terms of accessing them woul