Makes sense. My understanding is not good enough to confidently make my own decisions, and I'm learning as Im going. The BPG says:
- The recommended number of disks per group is between 3 and 9. If you have more disks, use multiple groups If there was a reason leading up to this statement, I didnt follow it. However, a few paragraphs later, their RaidZ2 example says [4x(9+2), 2 hot spares, 18.0 TB]. So I guess 8+2 should be quite acceptable, especially since performance is the lowest priority. On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <sh...@nedharvey.com>wrote: > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of hatish > > > > I have just > > read the Best Practices guide, and it says your group shouldnt have > 9 > > disks. > > I think the value you can take from this is: > Why does the BPG say that? What is the reasoning behind it? > > Anything that is a "rule of thumb" either has reasoning behind it (you > should know the reasoning) or it doesn't (you should ignore the rule of > thumb, dismiss it as myth.) > >
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