On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Anil Jangity wrote: > I plan to have 3 disks and am debating what I should do with them, if I > should do a > raidz (single or double parity) or just a mirror. > > With the # of reads below, I don't see any reason why I should consider > that. I would like to > proceed with doing a raidz with double parity, please give me some feedback.
I can't imagine any reason to use raidz with double parity with just three disks. This reduces performance and traps these disks forever. Using normal or triple mirror provides more performance and allows you to liberate one or two of these disks for some other purpose later. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
