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> But what ensures zraid block coverage on more than one spindle? This probably is safe for a large enough set of drives, but what is the threshold? Surely the
by magicalhippo 1y ago
> But what ensures zraid block coverage on more than one spindle? This probably is safe for a large enough set of drives, but what is the threshold?
Surely they'll use a similar allocation strategy to what ZFS currently uses to allocate disk sectors. And of course if you mix a 4TB and a 8TB drive in a AnyRaid-Mirror configuration, you can only ever have 4TB redundant, so like current ZFS I assume you'll see 4TB. But if you then add a 12TB drive later, you can get 12TB mirrored.
> Is it going to be accepted upstream?
Good question. The S3 storage backend was initially said to be upstreamed, but ended up staying private to maintain a competitive edge.
Haven't checked out HexOS before, but given they're partnering with TrueNAS[1] and hiring Klara, Inc for development, one can certainly hope so.
[1]: https://www.truenas.com/blog/powered-by-truenas-hexos/ https://www.truenas.com/blog/powered-by-truenas-hexos/
- ggm 1y agoSay you have a 2, 2x4s and an 8. You should be able to have almost everything mirrored or have some raidz2 and some raidz1.
- magicalhippo 1y agoYou could mirror them, then you could use all the space. Not sure I see how you'd do a raidz2+raidz1 combo using those drives, at least not without losing 4TB of the 8TB drive, but then I'm tired so.