On 28/06/2007, at 12:29 AM, Victor Latushkin wrote:
It is not so easy to predict. ZFS will coalesce writes. A single transaction group may have many different writes in it. Also, raidz[12] is dynamic, and will use what it needs, unlike separate volume managers who do not have any
understanding of the context of the data.

There is a good slide which illustrates how stripe width is selected dynamically in RAID-Z. Please see slide 13 in this slide deck: http://www.snia.org/events/past/sdc2006/zfs_File_Systems-bonwick- moore.pdf
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Btw, I believe there's no link to this presentation on opensolaris.org. unfortunately...

Indeed. Is there any reason that the presentation at http:// www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfs_last.pdf

Couldn't be updated to the one that Victor mentions?
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