On 8/22/08, Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, that looks pretty good mike. There are a few limitations to that as you > add the 2nd raidz2 set, but nothing major. When you add the extra disks, > your original data will still be stored on the first set of disks, if you've > any free space left on those you'll then get some data stored across all the > disks, and then I think that once the first set are full, zfs will just start > using the free space on the newer 8.
> It shouldn't be a problem for a home system, and all that will happen > silently in the background. It's just worth knowing that you don't > necessarily get the full performance of a 16 disk array when you do it in two > stages like that. that's fine. I'll basically be getting the performance of an 8 disk raidz2 at worst, yeah? i'm fine with how the space will be distributed. after all this is still a huge improvement over my current haphazard setup :P _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
