Is there a way to get Drobo-like functionality out of ZFS (or some other free FS)? [closed]

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Published on 2012-04-14T06:41:42Z Indexed on 2012/04/14 23:33 UTC
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I really like the concept of the Drobo, I just don't like the speed. I want the redundancy and easy upgradeability of the Drobo, but faster. I would love to be able to build something on my own. ZFS seems like a good place to start, but it has either upgradeability or redundancy (RAIDZ) but not both.

To clarify, I want to be able to have an array of disks which are expandable by just adding a drive and have redundancy built in.

I found instructions for making zfs act like a Drobo, but they are quite complicated and upgrading is a lot of work. Has anyone automated something like what is described there? Is there a different file system I should be looking at?

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