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

[Volker A. Brandt]

Michelle <michelle at msknight.com> writes:
> This remains one question ... can drives and partitions be mixed in a
> ZFS pool?

Sure, but I wouldn't do it.  Just put identically-sized slices (say,
2 TB or maybe 1 TB) on all of your disks, as many as will fit on each
physical disk.

Next, create mirrored pairs from two slices residing on different
physical disks.  You then have a slice-only pool using all of your
storage (assuming there is an even number of slices available).  Yes,
performance will not be stellar but you have put your disks to good
use and have some measure of redundancy.


Cheers -- Volker
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