Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz2 vdev width (again)

2010-10-20 Thread Ian Collins
On 10/21/10 07:00 AM, Jeff Bacon wrote: So, Best Practices says "use (N^2)+2 disks for your raidz2". I wanted to use 7 disk stripes not 6, just to try to balance my risk level vs available space. Doing some testing on my hardware, it's hard to say there's a ton of difference one way or the other

[zfs-discuss] raidz2 vdev width (again)

2010-10-20 Thread Jeff Bacon
So, Best Practices says "use (N^2)+2 disks for your raidz2". I wanted to use 7 disk stripes not 6, just to try to balance my risk level vs available space. Doing some testing on my hardware, it's hard to say there's a ton of difference one way or the other - seek/create/delete is a bit faster on