On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:59 AM, tomwaters <tomwat...@chadmail.com> wrote: > Yes, I am glad that I learned this lesson now, rather than in 6 months when I > have re-purposed the exiting drives...makes me all the more committed to > maintaining an up to date remote backup. > > The reality is that I can not afford to mirror the 8TB in the zpool, so I'll > balance the risk and just backup the important items like music, document and > photo's. > > ISO's and DVD's I can always recreate. > > Thanks guys for the support. I'll do alot more reading on ZFS/datasets etc. > befor I mess with the server again!...hmmm, actually, I just had a thought, I > will also create a playpool when I can try out things before using them on > the main pool.
In that regard, you can use a file based zpool, no need to slice your disks that way. Francois _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
