On Jul 23, 2010, at 10:14 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <sh...@nedharvey.com> wrote:

>> From: Arne Jansen [mailto:sensi...@gmx.net]
>>> 
>>> Can anyone else confirm or deny the correctness of this statement?
>> 
>> As I understand it that's the whole point of raidz. Each block is its
>> own
>> stripe. 
> 
> Nope, that doesn't count for confirmation.  It is at least theoretically
> possible to implement raidz using techniques that would (a) unintelligently
> stripe all blocks (even small ones) across multiple disks, thus hurting
> performance on small operations, or (b) implement raidz such that striping
> of blocks behaves differently for small operations (plus parity).  So the
> confirmation I'm looking for would be somebody who knows the actual source
> code, and the actual architecture that was chosen to implement raidz in this
> case.

Maybe this helps?

http://blogs.sun.com/ahl/entry/what_is_raid_z

-Ross

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