On Mar 24, 2011, at 5:42 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- >> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Nomen Nescio >> >> Hi ladies and gents, I've got a new Solaris 10 development box with ZFS >> mirror root using 500G drives. I've got several extra 320G drives and I'm >> wondering if there's any way I can use these to good advantage in this >> box. I've got enough storage for my needs with the 500G pool. At this > point >> I would be looking for a way to speed things up if possible or add >> redundancy if necessary but I understand I can't use these smaller drives > to >> stripe the root pool, so what would you suggest? Thanks. > > Generally, you choose your data pool config based on data size, redundancy, > and performance requirements. If those are all satisfied with your single > mirror, the only thing left for you to do is think about splitting your data > off onto a separate pool due to better performance etc. (Because there are > things you can't do with the root pool, such as striping and raidz) > > That's all there is to it. To split, or not to split.
I'd just put /export/home on this second set of drives, as a striped mirror. Same as I would have done in the "old days" under SDS. :-) Mark _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
