On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 21:18 -0700, Brian Lionberger wrote: > I have a zpool issue that I need to discuss. > > My application is going to run on a 3120 with 4 disks. Two(mirrored) > disks will represent /export/home and the other two(mirrored) will be > /export/backup. > > The question is, should I create one zpool or two to hold /export/home > and /export/backup? > Currently I have one pool for /export/home and one pool for /export/backup. > > Should it be on pool for both??? Would this be better and why?
Depends on what you want to do. Is there a reason to separate them? Benefit of zfs is you pool all the storage and allocate as you need. You can use quota's to limit and reservation to guarantee space. If you need space later, you would only need to add two more disks to one pool go provide space to both current file systems vs. having to add 4 disks to two different pools. Also depending on what you need, you could use the 4 disks in a RAIDZ to provide additional space with redundancy, etc. Again, this would depend on what your current needs are. Without a description of your application, and other requirements (cluster/failover, etc), could be either or. > > Thanks for any help and advice. > > Brian. > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Mike Dotson _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
