Gentlemen, behold!
jnthornh@coltrane ~ $ zfs list vault
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
vault 619G 1.18T 48.7K /vault
jnthornh@coltrane ~ $ df -h /vault
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
vault 1.8T 48K 1.2T 1% /vault
I had a few delays, and some things didn't go as smoothly as I might have hoped, but my home file server now lives and is backing my MythTV box.
I've started sketching out some documentation on my wiki. I won't go into all of the details in this post - I plan to add more information later - but my biggest delays weren't even related to the storage box itself. In fact, I stalled for weeks just because I was too lazy to crawl around under the house and run some cabling.
I did take a good chunk of time to hammer out some failure recovery stuff once everything was working. The totally awesome news - if I reboot with a drive missing, everything works. If I re-jumpstart the box and do a 'zfs import', the raidz pool magically comes back (and is even mounted for me).
ZFS really does seem like magic if you're used to dealing with normal filesystems - more on that later.