Hello Jim! I understood ZFS doesn't like slices but from your reply maybe I should reconsider. I have a few older servers with 4 bays x 73G. If I make a root mirror pool and swap on the other 2 as you suggest, then I would have about 63G x 4 left over. If so then I am back to wondering what to do about 4 drives. Is raidz1 worthwhile in this scenario? That is less redundancy that a mirror and much less than a 3 way mirror, isn't it? Is it even possible to do raidz2 on 4 slices? Or would 2, 2 way mirrors be better? I don't understand what RAID10 is, is it simply a stripe of two mirrors? Or would it be best to do a 3 way mirror and a hot spare? I would like to be able to tolerate losing one drive without loss of integrity.
I will be doing new installs of Solaris 10. Is there an option in the installer for me to issue ZFS commands and set up pools or do I need to format the disks before installing and if so how do I do that? Thank you. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
