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1. 31.▲
   by ewwhite 9y ago

   I'm surprised how often people ask this.
2. 32.▲
   by ewwhite 9y ago

   Yeah, I have to play the game of deleting the zfs and spl packages, deleting weak-modules and reinstalling on the new kernel. It's expected, but silly.
3. 33.▲
   by ewwhite 10y ago

   Huh? I'm not sure I understand.
4. 34.▲
   by ewwhite 10y ago

   Hot spares and monitoring. RaidZ2 across that number of drives is a performance nightmare and against ZFS best practices.
5. 35.▲
   by ewwhite 10y ago

   This is a simple example setup in a 12-drive enclosure. 9 disks, a global hot-spare disk and two cache drives. Previously, I would have used straight ZFS mirrors for performance and expandability (raidz VDEVs can't be expanded), but at
6. 36.▲
   by ewwhite 10y ago

   This is key. I mean, I focus on the HP side and used ProLiant servers and storage enclosures in my examples... But the Sun/Oracle enclosures and components are very inexpensive off-lease and come at a price-point where it's totall