Replacing my current media server with another larger capacity media server. Also switching over to solaris/zfs.
Anyhow we have 24 drive capacity. These are for large sequential access (large media files) used by no more than 3 or 5 users at a time. I'm inquiring as to what the best configuration for this is for vdevs. I'm considering the following configurations 4 x x6 vdevs in RaidZ1 configuration 3 x x8 vdevs in RaidZ2 configuration Obviously if a drive fails, it'll take a good several days to resilver. The data is important but not critical. Using raidz1 allows you one drive failure, but my understanding is that if the zpool has four vdevs using raidz1, then any single vdev failure of more than one drive may fail the entire zpool ???? If that is the case, then it sounds better to consider 3 x8 with raidz2. Am I on the right track here ? Thanks -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
