> First, does RaidZ support disks of multiple sizes, or must each RaidZ set > consist of equal sized disks?
Each RAID-Z set must be constructed from equal-sized storage. While it's possible to mix disks of different sizes, either you lose the capacity of the larger disks, or you have to partition them and then use equal-sized partitions as the basis for each RAID-Z set. > Secondly, can you add disks to a RaidZ set after it's been created and > added to the pool? No. You can add a new RAID-Z set to the pool, but you can't add an individual disk to an existing RAID-Z set. > Thirdly, for a relatively low usage pattern such as a home fileserver, is > > 1GB of > RAM really necessary? "It might be." You can give it a try with less, but ZFS really likes to have a lot of RAM for caching. (And memory can be relatively cheap these days, at least for modern low-end/mid-range hardware.) > Lastly, I saw that ZFS supports exporting via NFS -- my home environment is > mixed, so is ZFS able to export in Samba as well as NFS or do I need to > configure > the Samba server myself? You need to configure the Samba server yourself for now. (Hmmm, maybe there's an RFE? :-) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
