On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Nomen Nescio <nob...@dizum.com> wrote:
> Hello Bob! Thanks for the reply. I was thinking about going with a 3 way > mirror and a hot spare. But I don't think I can upgrade to larger drives > unless I do it all at once, is that correct? Why keep one out as a Hot Spare ? If you have another zpool and the Hot Spare will be shared, that makes sense. If the drive is powered on and spinning, I don't see any downside to making it a 4-way mirror instead of 3-way + HS. -- {--------1---------2---------3---------4---------5---------6---------7---------} Paul Kraus -> Senior Systems Architect, Garnet River ( http://www.garnetriver.com/ ) -> Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ( http://www.sloctheater.org/ ) -> Technical Advisor, RPI Players _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss