Re: [zfs-discuss] [Fwd: Re: ZFS and storage array]

2007-01-03 Thread Torrey McMahon
If you dig into the email archives you'll see lots of threads about where to use ZFS or hw level raid, the tradeoffs, possible performance hits, etc. It really is context sensitive. Karen Chau wrote: Hi Torrey, thanks for you response. I'm not sure if I can create a LUN using a single disk on

Re: [zfs-discuss] [Fwd: Re: ZFS and storage array]

2007-01-03 Thread Karen Chau
Hi Torrey, thanks for you response. I'm not sure if I can create a LUN using a single disk on the 6130. If I use 6 disks to create 3 LUNS (2 disks per LUN) and create a raidz pool. I will have stripe w/parity on *BOTH* LUN level and ZFS level, would this cause a performance issue? How abou

Re: [zfs-discuss] [Fwd: Re: ZFS and storage array]

2007-01-03 Thread Torrey McMahon
You want to give ZFS multiple LUNs so it can have redundancy within the pool. (Mirror or RAIDZ) Otherwise, you will not be able to recover from certain types of errors. A zpool with a single LUN would only let you detect the errors. Karen Chau wrote:

[zfs-discuss] [Fwd: Re: ZFS and storage array]

2007-01-03 Thread Karen Chau
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