On 8/19/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raidz can only be as big as your smallest disk. For example if I had a 320gig > with a 250gig and 200gig I could only have 400gig of storage. >
Correct - variable sized disks are not (yet?) supported. However, you can circumvent this by slicing up the disks (or using partitions) and building multiple raidz sets. In you example, you would first use 200G each to make 3x200G raidz, leaving you with 120 and 50 G "excess" on two disks. Then you can make a mirror out of them, (2x50G) leaving 70G excess on the first disk (which can be used as temporary space or such). It gets better when there are more disks - if your two largest disks are of equal size, you even get away without any wasted space. This process is quite clumsy, and gets really complicated when you want to add disks - but as it stands, is the only option in this scenario. Wishlist: object level raidz.. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
