On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 10:54 -0400, Luke Scharf wrote:
> Tim Foster wrote: 
> > You can add a disk to a raidz configuration, but then that makes a pool
> > containing 1 raidz + 1 additional disk in a dynamic stripe configuration
> > (which ZFS will warn you about, since you have different fault tolerance
> > then) eg.

> You can do that, but then if /tmp/4 fails (in the example), you loose
> all of the data on that disk.  If you were running raid5, you probably
> care about data-loss and cost -- and this configuration only cares
> about cost.

Exactly - sorry I thought the implication was clear :-)
> 
-- 
Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
http://blogs.sun.com/timf

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