Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com> writes: >> With five disks, raidz1 becomes useful. > > +1 > also remember that you can add mirrors later. For best data availability, > start with 2 mirrored disks, each split in half. As your data requirements > grow, add mirrored halves. For diversity, make each side (half) of the > mirror be on different disks.
Not sure I understand why this is a good idea. Understand that I'm totally inexperienced with zfs, but I thought I'd seen that zfs was more usable on whole disks, you're talking about fdisk partitions with slices inside above, aren't you? _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss