>>So if I have 8 x 1.5tb drives, wouldn't I: 

>>- mirror drive 1 and 5 
>>- mirror drive 2 and 6 
>>- mirror drive 3 and 7 
>>- mirror drive 4 and 8 

>>Then stripe 1,2,3,4 

>>Then stripe 5,6,7,8 

>>How does one do this with ZFS? 

>So you would do: 
>zpool create tank mirror drive1 drive2 mirror drive3 drive4 mirror drive5 
>drive6 mirror drive7 drive8 

>See here: 
>http://www.stringliterals.com/?p=132 

So, effectively mirroring the drives, but the pool that is created is one giant 
pool of all of the mirrors?

I looked at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels#RAID-Z and 
they had a brief description of RAIDZ2.

Can someone explain in terms of usable space RAIDZ vs RAIDZ2 vs RAIDZ3? With 8 
x 1.5tb?

I apologize for seeming dense, I just am confused about non-stardard raid 
setups, they seem tricky.

-Jason
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