Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 10:20:22 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS confusion Message-ID: <20140127102022.1caee0134a656d112aeae977@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <52E62DFF.3010600@gmail.com> References: <52E40C82.7050302@gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401270944100.4811@mail.fig.ol.no> <52E62DFF.3010600@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 09:59:27 +0000 Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> wrote: > Would it be better to create a raidz1 pool then just add raidz1 pools to > the master as time goes by? I would advise against using any scheme that only allows a single disc failure. When (not if) a disc fails and needs to go RMA you're stuck with no redundancy at all until the replacement comes back and gets resilvered. That can be an uncomfortably long time, especially if all your drives came from the same batch (if at all possible don't let that happen, I've seen a big RAID array lose several drives in one day because they all came from the same batch and all wore out together). -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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