[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS pool layout - request for opinion

[Jonathan Adams]

Basically the same thing in our 6 disk systems.

We generally have 2 256Gb disks in the mirrored root pool, and 4 4Tb disks
mirrored in the "datapool" ... but disks are cheap overall, compared to
your data.

Jon



On 26 February 2014 08:06, Stefan Müller-Wilken <
stefan.mueller-wilken at acando.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> one thing I stumble over again and again is ZFS pool layout for 6 disk
> servers (e.g. 1 HU ProLiants) . What I do so far is reserving disk 1 & 2
> for the rpool mirror and put disks 3 - 6 into a RAIDZ-1 data pool. I don't
> really like this layout as it means wasting a lot of space on the rpool
> while having only minimal redundancy for data. What do others do to combine
> space efficiency with bootability and redundancy?
>
> Cheers
>  Stefan
>
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