[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS 0+1 across disparate drives

[Michelle]

That's a workable solution. As you say, not as elegant as RAID, and if
one drive went down on the live set, it would render the share
inaccessible... but it would work in principle.

Thanks for the suggestion.


On Wed, 2021-12-01 at 13:22 +0300, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 11:32 AM Michelle <michelle at msknight.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > This is probably going to be a stupid question, as I know that
> > several
> > year ago, the answer to this question would be no... but times
> > change.
> > 
> > Like many people, I have a collection of disparate drives sitting
> > around doing nothing.
> > 
> > I was thinking of getting them together in a RAID 1+0
> > configuration.
> > 
> > Say I was to put a 2tb, three 4tb and a 6tb together (a 2 and two 4
> > would make 10 and the other 4 and the 6 would also make 10)
> > 
> > Would that be possible with ZFS now?
> > 
> > Michelle.
> > 
> > 
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> 
> Another possibility may be , perhaps , as follows :
> 
> Attach these disks to your system(s) .
> Prepare rsync containing shell script(s) .
> Using cron , execute these shell script(s) to synchronize your disks
> suitable to your needs.
> Updates may not be instantaneous as RAID , but at least are working
> with
> respect to your design .
> 
> 
> With my best wishes for all of you ,
> 
> 
> Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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