I'd take your 10 data disks and make a single raidz2 stripe. You can sustain two disk failures before losing data, and presumably you'd replace the failed disks before that was likely to happen. If you're very concerned about failures, I'd have a single 9-wide raidz2 stripe with a hot spare.
Adam On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 01:44:06PM -0700, John-Paul Drawneek wrote: > Just to clarify > > pool1 -> 5 disk raidz2 > pool2 -> 4 disk raid 10 > > spare for both pools > > Is that correct? > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Adam Leventhal, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/ahl _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
