>> >> > Our main storage is a HDS 9585V Thunder with vxfs and raid5 on 400 GB
>> >> > sata disk handled by the storage system. If I would migrate to zfs
>> >> > that would mean 390 jbod's.
>> >>
>> >> How so?
>>
>> CG> Do you mean whether the hds can be turned in to a (rather large) jbod
>> CG> storage system? I just found out yesterday that our atabeast has no
>> CG> option other than raid0, -4 and -5 when defining raid-level. So no
>> CG> jbod'ing on that one.
>>
>> Then do RADI-5 LUNs on the array and stripe between them in ZFS.
CG> Yes, that's what I did, although I plan to stripe two disks and will
CG> do raidz2 on those. Solaris 10 is installing atm. :-)
Hot Spare would be little bit more complicated then but it will work.
Just got second thoughts and re-created the raid-sets on the atabeast
to 3+1 (raid5) with a hotspare. Then I can have a faulty drive. Then
I'll do raidz2 on in zfs.
regards
Claus
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