Well since we are talking about for home use, I never tried as a spare, but if you want to get real nutty, do the setup cindys suggested but format the 600GB drive as UFS or some other filesystem and then try and create a 250GB file device as a spare on that UFS drive. it will give you redundancy and not waste all the space on the 600GB drive.
Zfs allows the use of file devices instead of hardware devices "zfs create test /tmp/testfiledevice" as an example If you do it, let us know how it goes :) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
