zfs discuss - Jul 2008 - Pool setup suggestions

As I used OpenSolaris for some time I wanted to give SXCE (snv_93) a change on
my home server. Now I'' wondering what would be the best setup for my
disks.

I have two 300GiB PATA disks* in stock, two 160G SATA disks** in use by my old
linux server and - maybe for temporary use - an external 160G USB disk***.

First though was to take one of 300G disks and creating three slices on it:

	c0d0s0	32G		for SXCE
	c0d0s1	1G		swapspace
	c0d0s7	245G		for zpool

Than cloning that setup on the second 300G disk (using c0d1s0 for luupgrade) 
and creating the pool with two of the 160G disk like this:

	zpool create data mirror c0d0s7 c0d1s7 mirror c1t0d0 c2t0d0

(c2t0d0 would be the external disk in the first place as I cannot remove both
Samsungs from the linux box before the new server can take over).

First problem I see wih that setup - it uses mirror sets which wastes a lot
space. I would prefer a RAIDz solution. Second the pool uses slices instaed of
whole disks.

Any suggestions for a "ideal" setup?

TIA,
Stefan


* - Maxtor 6L300R0
** - SAMSUNG SP1614C
*** - Hitachi HTS542516K9SA00
 
 
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OK, as nobody seemed to have a better solution I decided to stay with my initial
idea (two mirror sets) with a slight change. Instead of using UFS slices for the
root & swap filesystems I installed to whole system on zfs pool.
 
 
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