opensolaris-zfs-disc...@mlists.thewrittenword.com said: > Is it really pointless? Maybe they want the insurance RAIDZ2 provides. Given > the choice between insurance and performance, I'll take insurance, though it > depends on your use case. We're using 5-disk RAIDZ2 vdevs. > . . . > Would love to hear other opinions on this.
Hi again Albert, On our Thumper, we use 7x 6-disk raidz2's (750GB drives). It seems a good compromise between capacity, IOPS, and data protection. Like you, we are afraid of the possibility of a 2nd disk failure during resilvering of these large drives. Our usage is a mix of disk-to-disk-to-tape backups, archival, and multi-user (tens of users) NFS/SFTP service, in roughly that order of load. We have had no performance problems with this layout. Regards, Marion _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss