On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger <lists@xunil.at>wrote:

> Am 26.08.2013 17:51, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
>
> > 2 smallest disks in RAID1 configuration for booting.
> >
> > Then the 6 disks as JBOD and use it within a RAIDZ2 array.
> >
> > Or, 6 disks in JBOD, add them a 3 ZFS mirror vdev's.
>
> Interesting suggestion.
>
> I don't know if I dare ... I wonder how VMs would perform on
> ZFS-filesystems ... I should test that before actually setting that up.
> The system will run ~800km away from me so it should be rather
> bullet-proof ;-)
>
> I trust ZFS, sure ... but I don't have experience with it as a storage
> for KVM-virtualization.
>
> But I consider it, thanks!
>
> Stefan
>
>
>
Well... with a ZFS-backed storage, when you want to create a new VM, all
you have to do is `zfs clone` ;-)

Rgds,
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