> From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com]
> 
> > Now suppose you have a raidz with 3 disks (disk1, disk2, disk3, where
disk3
> > is resilvering).  You find some way of ordering all the used blocks of
> > disk1...  Which means disk1 will be able to read in optimal order and
speed.
> 
> Sounds like prefetching :-)

Ok.  Prefetch every used sector in the pool.  Problem solved.  Let the disks
sort all the requests into on-disk order.  Unless perhaps the number of
requests would exceed the limits of what the drive is able to sort ...
Which seems ... more than likely.

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