From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 10 22:10:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E9716A406 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:10:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDA1013C468 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:10:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HmGpu-0005m2-5T for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 00:10:10 +0200 Received: from 89-172-50-90.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([89.172.50.90]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 00:10:10 +0200 Received: from ivoras by 89-172-50-90.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 May 2007 00:10:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 00:09:52 +0200 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig17A1312BAA997BF5953AAC68" X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89-172-50-90.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.3.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: ZFS the perfect FS? if only... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:10:14 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig17A1312BAA997BF5953AAC68 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Elliot Finley wrote: > If you could start with a 3 drive zraid2 as the underlying pool > storage and later add drives to the existing zraid2 as space was > needed, then ZFS would be the ultimate FS (at least for me). >=20 > Any takers? How hard would this be? Isn't zraid2 like RAID6, e.g. includes 2 "parity" components? How do you propose to redistribute the parity blocks after a disk is included in already functioning RAID5 or RAID6 volume? (hint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID5#RAID_5) --------------enig17A1312BAA997BF5953AAC68 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGQ5g2ldnAQVacBcgRAop+AJ9rclVAiK3iHbRdG8kUS7sHVXu3nACfTPwE EOvrPHuhXLB5AvVRmt5qo8A= =0Wrg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig17A1312BAA997BF5953AAC68--