On 18/04/12 15:01, Russell Coker wrote:
Now I'm considering the case of a reasonable size ZFS server. Would it work to have an 8-disk mirror for the root filesystem? I'll probably put /var on ZFS so the root filesystem won't need to be particularly big. In terms of wasting space a 10G root filesystem mirrored across all disks isn't a big deal when you have 3TB disks. It seems that the ability to boot from any disk and having a symmetric layout provide more benefit than saving maybe 60G of raw disk capacity.
I've done it with 4 disks using GPT under FreeBSD 9, works like a charm. Booting takes a little while extra though, but nothing too serious. Regards, -- .''`. Philipp Huebner <debalance@debian.org> : :' : pgp fp: 6719 25C5 B8CD E74A 5225 3DF9 E5CA 8C49 25E4 205F `. `'` HP: http://www.debalance.de, Skype: philipp-huebner `- ICQ: 235-524-440, Jabber: der_schakal@jabber.org