I have 6 SATA drives. 4 of them are 1TB and 2 of them are 500GB. I would like to create a RAIDZ pool with them.
Obviously, adding devices of different sizes to a RAIDZ is not possible. Can the two smaller drives be striped together and then can the stripe be added to a RAIDZ together with the other 4 drives?
It should look like this:
Can this be done with ZFS means, or should gstripe be used instead?
One more idea: What if I split each of the 1 TB drives into two partitions each and then use the 500 GB partitions together with the two smaller disks? Would this be the cleanest solution?
Obviously, adding devices of different sizes to a RAIDZ is not possible. Can the two smaller drives be striped together and then can the stripe be added to a RAIDZ together with the other 4 drives?
It should look like this:
Code:
pool
* raidz-0
- 1TB disk
- 1TB disk
- 1TB disk
- 1TB disk
- stripe
> 500 GB disk
> 500 GB disk
Can this be done with ZFS means, or should gstripe be used instead?
One more idea: What if I split each of the 1 TB drives into two partitions each and then use the 500 GB partitions together with the two smaller disks? Would this be the cleanest solution?