I have a small stack of disks that I was considering putting in a box to build a backup server. It would only store data that is duplicated elsewhere, so I wouldn't really need redundancy at the disk layer. The biggest issue is that the disks are not all the same size. So I can't really do a raidz or mirror with them anyway. So I was considering just putting them all in one pool. My question is how does zpool behave if I lose one disk in this pool? Can I still access the data on the other disks? Or is it like a traditional raid0 and I lose the whole pool? Is there a better way to deal with this, using my old mismatched hardware?
Yes, I could probably build a raidz by partitioning and such, but I'd like to avoid the complexity. I'd probably just use zfs send/recv to send snapshots over or perhaps crashplan. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
