[geeks] Pure ZFS machine - possible?

[Phil Brutsche]

Mike Meredith wrote:
> It's probably a very difficult problem to enlarge a raid5 (or raidz)
> vdev non-destructively. The only storage vendor I know of that offers
> anything like that is NetApp and they use RAID4 to allow this. 

Difficult, yes.

Unique to NetApp, no.

Linux software raid recently gained that ability, recent being the last
3-4 months.

> Whilst zfs has a few problems, pretty much everything else does too ...
> you really don't want to hear me rant about EMC's Clariion arrays :)

The grass always looks greener ...

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Phil Brutsche
phil at tux.obix.com