Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:05:57 +0200 From: Wael Nasreddine <mla@nasreddine.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS question... Message-ID: <20080410190557.GB5450@phoenix.nasreddine.info> In-Reply-To: <20080410181402.GA4704@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20080410174523.GA5450@phoenix.nasreddine.info> <20080410181402.GA4704@dan.emsphone.com>
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--kORqDWCi7qDJ0mEj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This One Time, at Band Camp, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> said, On = Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 01:14:02PM -0500: > You don't necessarily need ZFS for this; gmirror would work just as > well. You can split your 750GB drive into three > partitions/slices/whatevers: > 160GB - mirror this with your physical 160GB disk > 500GB - mirror this with your physical 500GB disk > 90GB - leftover unmirrored, use at your peril > ZFS would let you take those two mirrored vdevs and stripe them into a > single pool, but then again you could use gstripe or gconcat for that.=20 > The main benefit to ZFS would be if you regularly crash the system; > fscking a 750gb UFS filesystem could take a while. That's not the desired behaviour actually, what I want is to gain the maximum space without the possibility of loosing data, I hear that ZFS is excellent at recovering data so I'm trying to figure out the perfect installation with these drives and of course while keeping the data safe... RAID0 is good for not wasting space at all but then again if one drive fails I'll lose everything :( What do you think guys? Should I do something or it's better just to leave them the way they are ( every drive has it's own, currently ext3, FS ) ?? --=20 Wael Nasreddine http://wael.nasreddine.com PGP: 1024D/C8DD18A2 06F6 1622 4BC8 4CEB D724 DE12 5565 3945 C8DD 18A2 /<o>\ These days the necessities of life cost you about three times what th= ey /<o>\ used to, and half the time they aren't even fit to drink. --kORqDWCi7qDJ0mEj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkf+ZRUACgkQVWU5RcjdGKK1uACdH4Xy/+vrDw/ryEjS6FYYnHlq GeUAoI0XEC0NC1p8S15UeLbzyVoc0Ane =g9AE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --kORqDWCi7qDJ0mEj--
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