At this point, this IS an academic exercize. I've tried to outline the motivations/justifications for wanting this particular functionality.
I believe my architectural "why not?" and "is it possible?" question is sufficiently valid. Its not about disk cost. Its about being able to grow the pool easily, and without having to replace all the drives within the pool at the same time. Its about having the flexibility of not having to pre-determine what amount of data I want protected against failure at the time I build the pool. This theoretical NAS doesn't exist yet. But I don't forsee being able to build it out of a machine with more than 8 SATA bays. At this point, its likely to be a cheap dell server with an external 4 bay enclosure. -Marko -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
