I'm about to build a fileserver and I think I'm gonna use OpenSolaris and ZFS.
I've got a 40GB PATA disk which will be the OS disk, and then I've got 4x250GB SATA + 2x500GB SATA disks. From what you are writing I would think my best option would be to slice the 500GB disks in two 250GB and then make two RAIDz with two 250 disks and one partition from each 500 disk, giving me two RAIDz of 4 slices of 250, equaling to 2 x 750GB RAIDz. How would the performance be with this? I mean, it would probably drop since I would have two raidz slices on one disk. >From what I gather, I would still be able to lose one of the 500 disks (or >250) and still be able to recover, right? Perhaps I should just get another 500GB disk and run a RAIDz on the 500s and one RAIDz on the 250s? I'm also a bit of a noob when it comes to ZFS (but it looks like it's not that hard to admin) - Would I be able to join the two RAIDz together for one BIG volume altogether? And it will survive one disk failure? /Christopher This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
