Harry Putnam writes: > I wanted to partition and slice up my disk to be able to work with > raidz. Maybe that isn't really important and all the same stuff > applies to any zpool. I don't know yet... I'm just getting > started.
I'm not sure that's a wise idea in the first place. A RAID volume tries to spread the I/O load across the members. If you do that with multiple partitions, you're naturally going to get the lowest possible performance -- causing the disk head to bounce back and forth between partitions on each access. It's "redundant array of inexpensive *disks*," not "partitions." As Dave said, your best bet is to feed ZFS a whole disk, and let it do as it will with it. > I had some trouble getting advice about making raidz on partitions, > probably because it isn't the best usage of raidz or even of zfs. Indeed. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[email protected]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
