On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Brandon High <bh...@freaks.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Edward Ned Harvey > <opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com> wrote: >> Actually, you can't do that. You can't make a vdev from other vdev's, and >> when it comes to striping and mirroring your only choice is to do it the >> right way. >> >> If you were REALLY trying to go out of your way to do it wrong somehow, I >> suppose you could probably make a zvol from a stripe, and then export it to >> yourself via iscsi, repeat with another zvol, and then mirror the two iscsi >> targets. ;-) You might even be able to do the same crazy thing with >> simply zvol's and no iscsi... But either way you'd really be going out of >> your way to create a problem. ;-) > > The right way to do it, um, incorrectly is to create a striped device > using SVM, and use that as a vdev for your pool. > > So yes, you could create two 800GB stripes, and use them to create a > ZFS mirror. But it would be a really bad idea. >
In freebsd you can use geom_stripe or geom_concat to create striped block device. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
