Re: [zfs-discuss] Raidz parity drives

2008-07-30 Thread Vanja
Sorry I meant "add the parity drive". I've got too much data to keep secondary backups, for now. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discus

[zfs-discuss] Performance of zfs with slices compared to drives

2008-07-30 Thread Vanja
I'm considering making a zfs raid with slices until I can get the right hard drive configuration to use full drives. What kind of performance difference is there? Will it be just a bigger hit on cpu, or will it be a big hit because zfs can no longer do any command queueing? This message post

[zfs-discuss] Raidz parity drives

2008-07-30 Thread Vanja
I was just wondering what would happen in a raidz array if one of the drives failed? I imagine everything would work fine for reading, but will I be able to write to the array still? If I can write, does that mean that replacing the dead drive with a working one will catch up the new drive? I t