On 05/21/2015 12:11 PM, Devin Reade wrote:

> One of the options I'm considering is something like setting up
> pairs of drives in a ZFS mirror in removable drive caddies,
> putting sets of the write-once data on such pairs via rsync or
> some-such, and then making 3 or 4 copies of those pairs of drives
> as the archival copies.  That way, each pair gets written *once*,
> gets put into cold storage, and not touched again (other than
> perhaps running a ZFS scrub on the copies every few years).

How much work is required to mount a filesystem on such drive? That is,
one drive from md raid1 with extX on it "just mounts" when you stick it
in a usb cradle. Do you need to jump through extra hoops with zfs?

-- 
Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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