MP wrote: >> this anti-raid-card movement is puzzling. >> > > I think you've misinterpreted my questions. > I queried the necessity of paying extra for an seemingly unnecessary RAID > card for zfs. I didn't doubt that it could perform better. > Wasn't one of the design briefs of zfs, that it would provide it's feature > set without expensive RAID hardware? >
In general, feature set != performance. For example, a VIA x86-compatible processor is not capable of beating the performance of a high-end Xeon, though the feature sets are largely the same. Additional examples abound. -- richard _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
