Personally, I did ZFS Mirroring for the boot and RAID-Z2 for the data. The primary reason I did ZFS Mirroring instead of HW Mirroring for the boot is that my motherboard did the hybrid hw raid and required reboot to fix it in case of failure. With ZFS mirroring, it's hot swappable.
Malachi On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Carson Gaspar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/18/2008 1:04 PM, Raymond Scott wrote: > > I'm very glad to see ZFS for boot available now. We have begun to use > > X4150 servers and had settled on using the built-in HW RAID for mirroring > > the drives in pairs. Two for Boot, two for data etc... > > > > Is it a good idea to first create a HW RAID mirror and then install the > OS using > > ZFS on that RAID device? Or, would it be better to not use the HW RAID > and > > just go with ZFS mirroring? > > Use ZFS mirroring instead. Checksum protection, better observability, > migratability, etc. > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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