[geeks] Pure ZFS machine - possible?

[Dan Duncan]

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, Bill Bradford wrote:
> I would wait until zfs-boot is an official feature.  "they're working on
> it".

I goofed with ZFS a bit to try it out.  I liked it and it was pretty
easy to manage but I was initially told it offered scalable raid5
like storage and as far as I can tell it doesn't.  If I create a
raidZ container of say 5 disks and then later expand it by one, it
just concatenates the filesystem across the 5-disk raidZ and the
single drive and failure of that single drive will cause a loss of
my data.  Are there plans for a smarter version of raidZ that will
actually merge an additional drive into a raidZ container or do I just
need to leave it alone longer and it will do this?  I'd love to make
one of my fileservers ZFS for future migration purposes.  (Which I
may do anyway since I'm in the process of building a new one)

-DanD

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