Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Why are people talking about "RAID-5", RAID-6", and > "RAID-10" on this > list? This is the zfs-discuss list and zfs does not > do "RAID-5", > "RAID-6", or "RAID-10". > > Applying classic RAID terms to zfs is just plain > wrong and misleading > since zfs does not directly implement these classic > RAID approaches > even though it re-uses some of the algorithms for > data recovery. > Details do matter.
That's not entirely true, is it? * RAIDZ is RAID5 + checksum + COW * RAIDZ2 is RAID6 + checksum + COW * A stack of mirror vdevs is RAID10 + checksum + COW While there isn't an actual one-to-one mapping, many traditional RAID concepts do seem to apply to ZFS discussions, don't they? Marty -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
