Hello, I'm quite interested in ZFS, like everybody else I suppose, and am about to install FBSD with ZFS.
On that note, i have a different first question to start with. I personally am a Linux fanboy, and would love to see/use ZFS on linux. I assume that I can use those ZFS disks later with any os that can work/recognizes ZFS correct? e.g. I can install/setup ZFS in FBSD, and later use it in OpenSolaris/Linux Fuse(native) later? Anyway, back to business :) I have a whole bunch of different sized disks/speeds. E.g. 3 300GB disks @ 40mb, a 320GB disk @ 60mb/s, 3 120gb disks @ 50mb/s and so on. Raid-Z and ZFS claims to be uber scalable and all that, but would it 'just work' with a setup like that too? I used to match up partition sizes in linux, so make the 320gb disk into 2 partitions of 300 and 20gb, then use the 4 300gb partitions as a raid5, same with the 120 gigs and use the scrap on those aswell, finally stiching everything together with LVM2. I can't easly find how this would work with raid-Z/ZFS, e.g. can I really just put all these disks in 1 big pool and remove/add to it at will? And I really don't need to use softwareraid yet still have the same reliablity with raid-z as I had with raid-5? What about hardware raid controllers, just use it as a JBOD device, or would I use it to match up disk sizes in raid0 stripes (e.g. the 3x 120gb to make a 360 raid0). Or you'd recommend to just stick with raid/lvm/reiserfs and use that. thanks, Oliver _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
