Guys i have 2 questions. 1. In zfs can you currently add more disks to an existing raidz? This is important to me as i slowly add disks to my system one at a time.
2. in a raidz do all the disks have to be the same size? This is the one thing that has always been a pain with a raid 5 as you need to split the disks into multiple raid 5's to use all the space. I never understood why the system to not do the same thing behind the scenes for you. EG 320gb x 4 and 1tb x 4. The ultimate is to only lose 1TB to parity instead of 1.32TB. To me it is not the space loss so much as the extra drive slot that i lose. instead i normally just create a raid5 of 320 x 8 and a rait 5 of 680 x 4. I would prefer just to create one raidz with all the disks and let the system work out the best way to get the most data out of it. I did do a test of the raidz with different size disks in a virtual machine and it would not let me create the raidz without using -F. once i created it with -F the pool size seems a little strange and i can't work out the combo of disks and space lost to parity to get the filesize it returned. Chris This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
