no, if you don't use redundancy, each disk you add makes the pool that much more likely to fair. This is the entire point of raidz .
ZFS stripes data across all vdevs. On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Travis Tabbal <tra...@tabbal.net> wrote: > 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 >
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