From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2021 17:09:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11806788.O9o76ZdvQC@iris> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9bcb86c6-9a63-fc05-7481-6b7609ca1b3f@iinet.net.au>
On Thursday, July 1, 2021 3:29:03 AM CEST William Kenworthy wrote:
> On 1/7/21 7:31 am, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Am Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 09:45:13PM +0100 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> >> On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:56:49 +0200, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> >>> I reached 80 % usage (which is the recommended maximum for ZFS) and am
> >>> now evaluating my options for the coming years.
> >>> ...
>
> Are you welded to ZFS? Is BTRFS or another alternative viable as it
> might handle the different drive sizes more elegantly? (e.g., btrfs raid
> handles different sized disks quite well)
Last I checked, BTRFS doesn't have any RAID5/6 equivalent.
And mirrored has too much storage-loss.
--
Joost
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-02 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-29 13:56 [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ Frank Steinmetzger
2021-06-30 20:00 ` antlists
2021-06-30 23:31 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-06-30 20:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-06-30 23:31 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-01 1:29 ` William Kenworthy
2021-07-02 15:09 ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2021-07-01 15:07 ` antlists
2021-07-01 17:21 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-01 13:47 ` Robert David
2021-07-01 15:01 ` antlists
2021-07-01 17:35 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-04 10:56 ` Robert David
2021-07-02 15:13 ` J. Roeleveld
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