Quick question about Greyhole

[omega]

Ok, my Amahi server has 3 HDD's, two 2TB & one 1TB. I have one of the 2TB drives partitioned in half, with one serving as the Landing Zone, and the other as part of Greyhole, and the other two just formatted with no partitions, also in the GReyhole storage pool. As follows:

2TB Drive: Partitioned in half.
one half is Landing Zone, and '/' drive;
other half is '/home' and part of Greyhole pool.
2TB Drive: Formatted with no partition, part of the Greyhole pool.
1TB Drive: Formatted with no partition, part of the Greyhole pool

My issue is that the Landing Zone drive is filling up, because it only seems to be transferring data that I have pooled onto the other drives. The problem with this is that I don't particularly care to backup about 1.3TB of my data. I only have my work files, family pics, and music being pooled.

Is the Landing Zone drive set up to hold ALL non-pooled storage? Or is there a way I can set a threshold of how much data can be stored on it? That's the install drive, and I'm afraid that if it gets too full it will start negatively impacting system performance.

[sgtfoo]

Never have your OS or /home partitions on your storage/pool drives.

For your setup I would suggest the following new config if you can spare a re-install...

1TB --> 5 partitions...
-500MB for '/boot'
-10GB for root '/'
-6GB for 'swap'
-10GB for '/home'
-remainder (973GB) for LZ '/var/hda/files/'

2TB #1 --> pool for greyhole storage.
'/var/hda/files/drives/drive01'

2TB #2 --> pool for greyhole storage.
'/var/hda/files/drives/drive02'

With this your system partitions won't be bogged by storage reads/writes.

//2 cents