> Right, put some small (30GB or something trivial) disks in for root and > then make a nice fast multi-spindle pool for your data. If your 320s > are around the same performance as your 500s, you could stripe and > mirror them all into a big pool. ZFS will waste the extra 180 on the > bigger disks but that's fine because your pool will bigger and faster > anyway.
Yes if I had the disks earlier your idea sounds like a good one. Unfortunately I only got the drives after I parted out several old boxes for some friends. Thanks for your suggestions _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss