On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Les Pritchard <les.pritch...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi Bob, > > Thanks for the input. I've had a play and created a stripe of the two 500gb > disks and then exported them as a volume. That was the key - I could then > treat it as a regular device and add it with the other 3 disks to create a > raidz pool of them all. > > Works very well and I'm sure the owner of the disks will be very happy to > not spend more money! Thanks for the tip. > > Les > > Once again I question why you're wasting your time with raid-z. You might as well just stripe across all the drives. You're taking a performance penalty for a setup that essentially has 0 redundancy. You lose a 500gb drive, you lose everything. --Tim
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