Rob Clark wrote:
>> -Peter Tribble wrote:
>>     
>
>   
>>> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Rob Clark wrote:
>>> I have eight 10GB drives.
>>> ...
>>> I have 6 remaining 10 GB drives and I desire to
>>> "raid" 3 of them and "mirror" them to the other 3 to
>>> give me raid security and integrity with mirrored
>>> drive performance. I then want to move my "/export"
>>> directory to the new drive.
>>> ...
>>>       
>
>   
>> You can't do that. You can't layer raidz and mirroring.
>> You'll either have to use raidz for the lot, or just use mirroring:
>> zpool create temparray mirror c1t2d0 c1t4d0 mirror c1t5d0 c1t3d0 mirror 
>> c1t6d0 c1t8d0
>> -Peter Tribble
>>     
>
>
> Solaris may not allow me to do that but the concept is not unheard of:
>   

Solaris will allow you to do this, but you'll need to use SVM instead
of ZFS.  Or, I suppose, you could use SVM for RAID-5 and ZFS to
mirror those.
 -- richard

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