On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Darren J Moffat <darr...@opensolaris.org> wrote: > On 18/10/2010 16:48, Freddie Cash wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Edward Ned Harvey<sh...@nedharvey.com> >> wrote: >>>> >>>> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- >>>> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Freddie Cash >>>> >>>> If you lose 1 vdev, you lose the pool. >>> >>> As long as 1 vdev is striped and not mirrored, that's true. >>> You can only afford to lose a vdev, if your vdev itself is mirrored. >>> >>> You could, for example, create 2 vdev's of raidz2, and instead of >>> striping >>> them together, mirror them. Then you could lose one of the raidz2's, and >>> the other half of the mirror is still up. >> >> How does one do that? Is it as simple as using "attach" instead of >> "add" when creating the new vdev? >> >> For example: >> >> zpool create mypool raidz2 disk0 disk1 disk2 disk3 disk4 disk5 disk6 >> zpool attach mypool raidz2 disk7 disk8 disk9 disk10 disk11 disk12 disk13 >> >> Would it work for adding a third raidz2 vdev? > > There is no support in ZFS for nested vdevs like this.
That's what I though, but wanted to make sure. Thanks. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
