Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 08:32:33 -0700 From: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs on gmirror slice Message-ID: <b269bc570909010832s44cd4eb2ib612db6fabc3bf2d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <a7454e2f0909010704g2fb27216hacb3ffd2cae5594c@mail.gmail.com> References: <a7454e2f0909010704g2fb27216hacb3ffd2cae5594c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Maciej Jan Broniarz <gausus@gausus.net>wrote: > Is is a bad ida to create a zfs pool from a gmirrored slice? > zpool create tank /dev/mirror/gm0s1g works fine, but after the reboot > the filesystem failes consistency check. > > You could, but the question is ... why would you? ZFS includes support for RAID0 (stripe), RAID1 (mirroring), RAID5 and RAID6 (raidz1/raidz2), and (soon in OpenSolaris) RAID7 (raidz3). Why would you want to build a pool out of devices that are already RAID'd together? Just use the bare disks, or slices on disks, or partitions even. -- Freddie Cash fjwcash@gmail.com
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