On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:31:25AM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: > On Jan 14, 2010, at 11:09 AM, Mr. T Doodle wrote: > > > I am considering RAIDZ or a 2-way mirror with a spare. > > > > I have 6 disks and would like the best possible performance and > > reliability and not really concerned with disk space. > > > > My thought was a 2 disk 2-way mirror with a spare. > > > > Would this be the best in terms of performance? > > A six-way mirror will give you the best read performance and data > retention :-) You can trade data retention for write performance > by a stripe of 2, 3-way mirrors or 3, 2-way mirrors. > -- richard
I vote for 2 3-way mirrors. That way you can afford to lose two devices in each vdev before losing your data. Ray _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
