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Re: [zfs-discuss] Size discrepancy (beyond expected amount?)

Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Size discrepancy beyond expected amount?
From: Harry Putnam
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:04:37 -0500
Richard Elling <richard.elling@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> With five disks, raidz1 becomes useful.
>
> +1
> also remember that you can add mirrors later.  For best data availability,
> start with 2 mirrored disks, each split in half.  As your data requirements
> grow, add mirrored halves.  For diversity, make each side (half) of the
> mirror be on different disks.

Not sure I understand why this is a good idea.  Understand that I'm
totally inexperienced with zfs, but I thought I'd seen that zfs was
more usable on whole disks, you're talking about fdisk partitions with
slices inside above, aren't you?

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