> On July 14, 2008 7:49:58 PM -0500 Bob Friesenhahn
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > With ZFS and modern CPUs, the parity calculation is
> surely in the noise to the point of being unmeasurable.
>
> I would agree with that. The parity calculation has *never* been a
> factor in and of itself. T
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> For your second one I'm less sure what's going on:
> ... . The problem is that a two disk raid-z makes no sense.
> Traditionally this level of raid needs a minimum of three disks to work.
> I suspect ZFS may be interpreting raid-z a
Err... I think you guys are talking cross purposes here. Either I'm missing
the point completely, or are you not aware that the Thumper2 includes a flash
storage slot so the OS doesn't use any of the 48 disks any more?
No, it's not mirrored, but Richard was trying to point out that it's likely
