Thank you for your quick responses! I was unable to get back to this thread on account of being stuck on a motorcycle yesterday (still can't feel my legs!). I think the KISS principle applies to 95% of computing (keeping in mind that 90% of everything is crap ;)). I've read Relling's blogs with great interest (hey, the whole industry isn't insane!). I'm very glad that there are people out there who know so much more than I do and are willing to share that knowledge, I think that's the beauty of open source philosophies.
I agree that RAID-Z won't provide the best performance, but I'm willing to trade performance for redundancy via parity bits. When I go through the mental scenario of realizing that I've just lost all my source code to a failed drive, the sickening feeling that settles in out weighs the performance penalty! However, I've one more question - do you guys think NCQ with short stroked zones help or hurt performance? I have this feeling (my gut, that is), that at a low queue depth it's a Great Win, whereas at a deeper queue it would degrade performance more so than without it. Any thoughts? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
