[zfs-discuss] ZFS: First use recommendations

gm_sjo
Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:24:59 -0000

2008/9/12 Malachi de ?lfweald:

> Currently, you can mirror your boot but not raidz2 it. I''d
recommend using 2 of the drives for a mirrored boot and the other 6 drives for
raidz2.  I used 2x Addonics AE5RCS35NSA to hold the drives to give me hot
swappability.

Sorry, forgot to mention - I have two other 40GB disks that will be
mirrored for the o/s. I haven''t decided yet whether a hardware mirror
would be best for this.


> Out of curiousity, is there any reason you are going with vmware rather
than xVM with the HVM hosts?  I am in the process of setting up xVM on my
machine, and would be interested to hear your thoughts.

Mainly because of familiarity. This isn''t a test-bed so I
don''t want
to commit to something and then have to change it in the future.
However, as dramatic as it sounds, this is just at home :-)

I''ll investigate xVM though.