On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 10:59:59AM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: > > One thing I would pay attention to is the future world of native ZFS > root. On a thumper, you only have two drives which are bootable from > the BIOS. For any application in which reliability is important, you > would have these two drives mirrored as your root filesystem. There can > be no hot spares for this pool, because any device you hot spare in will > not be readable from the BIOS.
Of course, now I went back and checked the original message and noted that you are only dealing with 46 disks, not 48. So you're one step ahead of me ;-) - Eric -- Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss