Hi tonmaus, thanks for your reply :) I do know that this isn't best practice, and I've also considered the approach you're hinting at of distributing each vdev over different disks. However, this yields a massive loss in capacity if I want double-parity RAIDZ2 (which I do ;) ), and I'll be unable to use my two 2TB disks since I don't have a third one for RAIDZ2 (which, even if I did, would result in a 2TB vdev from 6TB of raw storage space :-O ).
So I've boiled it down to one of the two aforementioned solutions, and like I wrote, I'm aware of it not being best practice. I'm just wondering whether my 2nd solution will cause head thrashing or not in which case I'd be going for solution no. 1. So if you or anyone else has any insight on the original question, I'd be very happy to hear it :) Thanks :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
