Ross wrote: > I thought that too, but actually, I'm not sure you can. You can stripe > multiple mirror or raid sets with zpool create, but I don't see any > documentation or examples for mirroring a raid set. >
Split the USB disk in half, then mirror each IDE disk to a USB disk half. > However, in this case even if you could, you might not want to. Creating a > stripe that way will restrict the speed of the IDE drives: They will be > throttled back to the speed of the USB disk. > You should be able to get 30 MBytes/s or so to/from a USB disk. For most general purpose use, this is ok. > What I would do instead is create a mirror of the two IDE drives, then use > zfs send/receive to send regular backups to the USB drive. > Yes, this is a safer and longer-term view. I store my USB drives in fire safes, one at my house, one someplace else. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
