Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Puzzling behaviour in zpools

2013-03-06 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-03-06 13:21, Jim Klimov wrote: https://blogs.oracle.com/ahl/entry/triple_parity_raid_z And the resulting scientific article: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1670144 Did you think and consider the trade-offs like these? If yes, what was your educated conclusion and why? //Jim __

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Puzzling behaviour in zpools

2013-03-06 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-03-04 20:54, Jan Owoc wrote: For the 4 TB disks there is only 1 12 disk vdev so 10 data disks, 2 parity disks, not 4. Your zpool status showed 2x 6-disk vdevs... This brings up an interesting question to contemplate: with the same capacity but doubled performance one can make 2x6-disk

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Puzzling behaviour in zpools

2013-03-04 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Len, On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Len Zaifman wrote: > RE: Jan's response: If you did your reply inline vs top-posting, it would be clear that you are responding to me. :-) > For the 2 TB disks there are 2 11 disk vdevs , so 18 data disks , 4 parity > disks > For the 4 TB disks there

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Puzzling behaviour in zpools

2013-03-04 Thread Len Zaifman
p14TB36T 70K 36T 1% /ccmbkup14TB Sorry for wasting the bandwidth. [OpenIndiana-discuss] Puzzling behaviour in zpools Jan Owoc jsowoc at gmail.com Mon Mar 4 19:22:12 UTC 2013 Previous message: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Puzzling behaviour in zpools Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Puzzling behaviour in zpools

2013-03-04 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Len, On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Len Zaifman wrote: > I have a system which I am configuring for maximum space to use as a low cost > backup service. It has an Areca raid card , 24 2 TB drives (Format reports > 1.82 TB) and 12 4 TB drives (format reports 3.64 TB). Yes, that is to be e

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Puzzling behaviour in zpools

2013-03-04 Thread Len Zaifman
I have a system which I am configuring for maximum space to use as a low cost backup service. It has an Areca raid card , 24 2 TB drives (Format reports 1.82 TB) and 12 4 TB drives (format reports 3.64 TB). using 2 2 TB drives for a mirrored rpool, I create a 2 TB pool as 2 x 11 disk raidz2 v