> By partitioning the first two drives, you can arrange to have a small > zfs-boot mirrored pool on the first two drives, and then create a second > pool as two mirror pairs, or four drives in a raidz to support your data.
agreed.. 2 % zpool iostat -v capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ------------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- r 8.34G 21.9G 0 5 1.62K 17.0K mirror 8.34G 21.9G 0 5 1.62K 17.0K c5t0d0s0 - - 0 2 3.30K 17.2K c5t1d0s0 - - 0 2 3.66K 17.2K ------------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- z 375G 355G 6 32 67.2K 202K mirror 133G 133G 2 14 24.7K 84.2K c5t0d0s7 - - 0 3 53.3K 84.3K c5t1d0s7 - - 0 3 53.2K 84.3K mirror 120G 112G 1 9 21.3K 59.6K c5t2d0 - - 0 2 38.4K 59.7K c5t3d0 - - 0 2 38.2K 59.7K mirror 123G 109G 1 8 21.3K 58.6K c5t4d0 - - 0 2 36.4K 58.7K c5t5d0 - - 0 2 37.2K 58.7K ------------ ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss