I'm sure I've done this before....
I have four devices: 2x 2TB and 2x 1TB
I could concatenate a 1TB and a 2TB together, then mirror over both.
It can survive one device dying. However, it seems like an ugly risky hack.
But it's not. It's the same risk level, is it not, as 4x 2TB drives in the same configuration. Right?
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in reply to Dan Langille • • •this is called a Frankenraid and it was invented in 2006 by @SlicerDicer using mdadm on mdadm lol
I think the risk of zpool degradation is slightly higher but the risk of real data loss is not