Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to carve up 8 disks

2006-10-12 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Brian Hechinger wrote: Ok, previous threads have lead me to believe that I want to make raidz vdevs [0] either 3, 5 or 9 disks in size [1]. Let's say I have 8 disks. Do I want to create a zfs pool with a 5-disk vdev and a 3-disk vdev? Are there performance issues with mixing differently sized ra

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to carve up 8 disks

2006-10-12 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:52:34AM -0500, Al Hopper wrote: > On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Brian Hechinger wrote: > > > Ok, previous threads have lead me to believe that I want to make raidz > > vdevs [0] either 3, 5 or 9 disks in size [1]. Let's say I have 8 disks. > > Do I want to create a zfs pool with

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to carve up 8 disks

2006-10-12 Thread Al Hopper
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Brian Hechinger wrote: > Ok, previous threads have lead me to believe that I want to make raidz > vdevs [0] either 3, 5 or 9 disks in size [1]. Let's say I have 8 disks. > Do I want to create a zfs pool with a 5-disk vdev and a 3-disk vdev? Personally I think that 5 disks fo

[zfs-discuss] Best way to carve up 8 disks

2006-10-12 Thread Brian Hechinger
Ok, previous threads have lead me to believe that I want to make raidz vdevs [0] either 3, 5 or 9 disks in size [1]. Let's say I have 8 disks. Do I want to create a zfs pool with a 5-disk vdev and a 3-disk vdev? Are there performance issues with mixing differently sized raidz vdevs in a pool? If