> Does it mean that for dataset used for databases and similar environments > where basically all blocks have fixed size and there is no other data all > parity information will end-up on one (z1) or two (z2) specific disks?
No. There are always smaller writes to metadata that will distribute parity. What is the total width of your raidz1 stripe? Adam -- Adam Leventhal, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/ahl _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss