Evert Meulie wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm planning a system which will be hosting various VM's. The host system > will be kept small. > > I was thinking of using ZFS on all partitions. > Does anyone see any reason I should NOT do the following? >
IMHO, 15 GBytes seems a little bit small for keeping several copies of the OS (I presume you plan to upgrade one day ;-) I'd bump that up to 20 GBytes or more. > DISK1 > partition 1: 15GB - host OS (ZFS RAID1) > partition 2: remainder - ZFS RAIDZ pool > DISK2 > partition 1: 15GB - host OS (ZFS RAID1) > partition 2: remainder - ZFS RAIDZ pool > > DISK3 > entire disk: ZFS RAIDZ pool > DISK4 > entire disk: ZFS RAIDZ pool > DISK5 > spare > > Wondering about the following: a failure on DISK3 or DISK4 will have DISK5 > automatically take over. But what about a failure in a partition on DISK1 or > DISK2? Will DISK5 also take over? > Yes. The spare is attached to a pool. In the case that disk1 completely fails, disk5 will take partition 2, but partition 1 will be gone. It might be better to label all of the disks the same and use the spare partition 1s as spares for the root pool. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
