I'm far from an expert but my understanding is that the zil is spread across the whole pool by default so in theory the one drive could slow everything down. I don't know what it would mean in this respect to keep the PATA drive as a hot spare though.
-Tim Christopher Gibbs wrote: > Anyone? > > On 9/14/07, Christopher Gibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I suspect it's probably not a good idea but I was wondering if someone >> could clarify the details. >> >> I have 4 250G SATA(150) disks and 1 250G PATA(133) disk. Would it >> cause problems if I created a raidz1 pool across all 5 drives? >> >> I know the PATA drive is slower so would it slow the access across the >> whole pool or just when accessing that disk? >> >> Thanks for your input. >> >> - Chris >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss