[Cialug] Writeup soon - ZFS SAN build

[Zachary Kotlarek]

On Feb 16, 2010, at 5:29 PM, Matt Breitbach wrote:

> So my boss ordered me parts to start on an OpenSolaris ZFS SAN box.
> 
> The primary plan is to share it via iSCSI
> 
> The rest of the chassis will be populated with 2TB SATA drives in a RAID10
> style configuration (via ZFS).


What's the benefit of using RAID-Z in a RAID-1-like configuration if you aren't using the related file system on top of it? Are you just doing it for the checksuming?

Does sparse provisioning work when you're exporting a block device, or does that only work with the filesystem? 

	Zach

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