ZFS - moving from a zraid1 to zraid2 pool with 1.5tb disks

[Ronald Klop]

On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:31:49 +0100, Damien Fleuriot <ml at my.gd> wrote:

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> On 1/1/11 6:28 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>> On 2 January 2011 02:11, Damien Fleuriot <ml at my.gd> wrote:
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>>> I remember getting rather average performance on v14 but Jean-Yves
>>> reported good performance boosts from upgrading to v15.
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>> that was v28 :)
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>> saw no major difference between v14 and v15.
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>> JY
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> Oopsie :)
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> Seeing I for one will have no backups, I think I won't be using v28 on
> this box, and stick with v15 instead.
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> Are there any views regarding the "best" implementation for a system ?
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> I currently have a ZFS only system but I'm planning on moving it to UFS,
> with ZFS used only for mass storage.
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> I understand ZFS root is much trickier, and my main fear is that if I
> somehow break ZFS (by upgrading to v28 for example) I won't be able to
> boot anymore, thus no repair process...

You can repair by booting from USB of CD in a lot of cases.

Ronald.