On Sat, 29 Oct 2022 at 10:43, Michelle <miche...@msknight.com> wrote: > I'm deliberately trying to push the envelope. I believe that ZFS will > act as a buffer between drives and run at the slowest device speed, but > I'm wondering if there is a threshold where ever ZFS will throw up its > hands and give up. > > I'm trying to make a ZFS pool focused on resilience, while using drives > that are already laying around. Performance is understandably going to > take a hit. > > The vision is a pool consisting of a number of mirrored vdevs. > > I mean... if I had a load of hard drives on SATA and connected another > drive via SATA to USB adaptor, would ZFS still handle it and slow down, > or would it throw a fit?
As long as the devices are merely slow, and not throwing actual errors, then I would expect that the pool would just exhibit similarly limited performance also. Cheers. -- Joshua M. Clulow http://blog.sysmgr.org _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss