Richard Connamacher <rich <at> indieimage.com> writes: > > Also, one of those drives will need to be the boot drive. > (Even if it's possible I don't want to boot from the > data dive, need to keep it focused on video storage.)
But why? By allocating 11 drives instead of 12 to your data pool, you will reduce the max sequential I/O throughput by approximately 10% which is significant... If I were you I would format every 1.5TB drive like this: * 6GB slice for the root fs * 1494GB slice for the data fs And create an N-way mirror for the root fs with N in [2..12]. I would rather loose 6/1500 = 0.4% of storage capacity than loose 10% of I/O throughput. I/O activity on the root fs will be insignificant and will have zero perf impact on your data pool. -mrb _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
