From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 784E513933E for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2021 01:29:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF1D6E0855; Thu, 1 Jul 2021 01:29:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from icp-osb-irony-out9.external.iinet.net.au (icp-osb-irony-out9.external.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.226]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFDB6E0833 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2021 01:29:14 +0000 (UTC) X-SMTP-MATCH: 0 IronPort-HdrOrdr: =?us-ascii?q?A9a23=3AtGyqjKnUiBWOtZ8pkkumZTsWzOLpDfLm3D?= =?us-ascii?q?Abv31ZSRFFG/Fw9vre+cjzsCWYtN9/Yh4dcLy7VpVoOEmskaKduLNhWotKPz?= =?us-ascii?q?OW2ldATrsP0WKK+VSJcREWkNQ96U4JScND4bbLfDtHZKjBgDVRx74bsaC6GL?= =?us-ascii?q?/Bv5ah8599JTsaDZ2J8W9Ce36m+0dNNXZ77OICZeGhDpcunUvbRZwOBv7Le0?= =?us-ascii?q?XsRID41qH2qK4=3D?= X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2DnCQBKGd1g/+hY69xaHgEBCxIMQAm?= =?us-ascii?q?FSAEBAYUxiQSHIQEBAQEBAQaBEzA4AYQChiWSbgsBAQEBAQEBAQEJQQQBAYR?= =?us-ascii?q?SAoJzJjgTAgQVAQEBBQEBAQEBBgMBgQSFdYZGAQUjMzMLGAICJgICVxMIAQG?= =?us-ascii?q?CbYJiJakAgTKBAYRnhVeBECqNakN9gRCBPAwDgj8vPoURgkqCZASFXGZdkUm?= =?us-ascii?q?NRVqcd4MqngsGDwUmg06RSwiQdbp/gjY5gX1NHxmDJU8ZDo4rFo45NAEBAWc?= =?us-ascii?q?CBgoBAQMJi0UBAQ?= X-IPAS-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A2DnCQBKGd1g/+hY69xaHgEBCxIMQAmFSAEBAYUxiQSHI?= =?us-ascii?q?QEBAQEBAQaBEzA4AYQChiWSbgsBAQEBAQEBAQEJQQQBAYRSAoJzJjgTAgQVA?= =?us-ascii?q?QEBBQEBAQEBBgMBgQSFdYZGAQUjMzMLGAICJgICVxMIAQGCbYJiJakAgTKBA?= =?us-ascii?q?YRnhVeBECqNakN9gRCBPAwDgj8vPoURgkqCZASFXGZdkUmNRVqcd4MqngsGD?= =?us-ascii?q?wUmg06RSwiQdbp/gjY5gX1NHxmDJU8ZDo4rFo45NAEBAWcCBgoBAQMJi0UBA?= =?us-ascii?q?Q?= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.83,312,1616428800"; d="scan'208";a="327367703" Received: from 220-235-88-232.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO mail.infra.localdomain) ([220.235.88.232]) by icp-osb-irony-out9.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 01 Jul 2021 09:29:08 +0800 Received: from localhost (mail.infra.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.infra.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A7E6F93 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2021 09:29:08 +0800 (AWST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from mail.infra.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.infra.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 5wjcspDix4n7 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2021 09:29:04 +0800 (AWST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20210630214513.0750a131@digimed.co.uk> From: William Kenworthy Message-ID: <9bcb86c6-9a63-fc05-7481-6b7609ca1b3f@iinet.net.au> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2021 09:29:03 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-AU X-Archives-Salt: 3b4b7688-f25f-44e8-ad66-3a4fdb04ed5a X-Archives-Hash: cfe366b78f02c70b991f9b9188b88be3 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) BillK