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A ZFS or LVM or MD redundant heterogeneous storage proposal

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Problem

I have the same problem most people have: how to create a reliable personal storage solution with the fact that: Hard drives fail with alarming regularity. Losing files is unacceptable. I will buy a new HDD from time to time. Inevitably, the best price/GB is a different size than the last HDD purch…

Error Output

+------------------------------------------------------------------+
| 2TB (sda1)        : (sda2)       : (sda3)       : (sda4)         |
+----------…

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Fix for: A ZFS or LVM or MD redundant heterogeneous storage proposal

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I have tested this with ZFS and write performance is about half what it should be, because ZFS distributes reads and writes over all vdevs (therefore dividing I/O to several places on the same disk). Thus, the speed is limited by the speed of the di…

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