On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Scott Lawson <scott.law...@manukau.ac.nz> wrote:
> If possible though you would be best to let the 3ware controller expose > the 16 disks as a JBOD to ZFS and create a RAIDZ2 within Solaris as you > will then > gain the full benefits of ZFS. Block self healing etc etc. > > There isn't an issue in using a larger amount of disks in a RAIDZ2, just > that it > is not the optimal size. Longer rebuild times for larger vdev's in a zpool > (although this > is proportional to how full the pool is.). Two parity disks gives you > greater cover in > the event of a drive failing in a large vdev stripe. Hmm, this is a bit disappointing to me. I would have dedicated only 2 disks out of 16 then to a single large raidz2 instead of two 8 disk raidz2's (meaning 4 disks went to parity) I was still operating under the impression that vdevs larger than 7-8 disks typically make baby Jesus nervous. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
