[LUNA] FreeBSD ZFS 'RAID0' setup ....

[Jared Wilkinson]

Wow, "Linix"? Haha. I shouldn't answer these so late at night.

On Thursday, July 3, 2014, Jared Wilkinson <jared52 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My only experience with ZFS so I can't be sure the implementation is the
> same on Linix, but why not just present the disks as JBOD and handle them
> strictly in ZFS? Then you could mirror, stripe or whatever to your hearts
> content inside the ZFS configs.
>
> On Thursday, July 3, 2014, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','wam at hiwaay.net');>> wrote:
>
>>
>> .... I am provisioning a new box to replace this one (an aging 55W
>> AMD64X2 3800+, 2 GB RAM, 1X 40 GB SATA-1 root drive, 1X 160 GB SATA-1
>> mounting /home, running Fedora-14 64-bit, to be re-purposed into a m0n0wall
>> box). I never upgraded cuz I liked the look & feel of F14 & felt no urge to
>> move. Now the machine feels *SLOW* (FireFox takes 25-30 sec. to launch,
>> similar for T-bird). New box is AMD 25W quad-core Jaguar based, Sempron
>> 3850, 16 GB of RAM, 4X 2.5" 1 TB 7200 rpm SATA-3 HGST's, to be partitioned
>> & ZFS-RAID-ed & run FreeBSD 9.2 64-bit, I have been reading feverishly on
>> ZFS & FreeBSD, like everything I have found so far, however 1 question.
>> Given only 4 drives, I don't want to RAID-1 (mirror) or RAIDZ-n
>> (RAID-5/6-ish), & lose 25-50 % of possible storage. The machine will be
>> rsynced nightly (at least) & tar-bziped twice weekly, & w/ all new 2.5"
>> drives, good cooling, etc. I don't expect trouble, & will be well prepped
>> if it rears its ugly head. Thus I would like to RAID-0 (stripe) the 4 ZFS
>> partitions. I located several very detailed tutorials, notably
>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/9.0-RELEASE, which walk
>> you through everything in gory detail, except for that 1 question. is it
>> possible to just stripe ZFS partitions ? I thought I remembered reading
>> that somewhere, but failed to bookmark it & haven't been able to re-acquire
>> it .... Any help appreciated ....
>>
>> --
>>
>>         William A. Mahaffey III
>>
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