Peter Wood wrote:
I'm using OpenIndiana 151a7, zpool v28, zfs v5.
When I bought my storage servers I intentionally left hdd slots
available so I can add another vdev when needed and delay immediate
expenses.
After reading some posts on the mailing list I'm getting concerned
about degrading
On 02/21/2013 12:27 AM, Peter Wood wrote:
Will adding another vdev hurt the performance?
In general, the answer is: no. ZFS will try to balance writes to
top-level vdevs in a fashion that assures even data distribution. If
your data is equally likely to be hit in all places, then you will not
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
On 02/21/2013 12:27 AM, Peter Wood wrote:
Will adding another vdev hurt the performance?
In general, the answer is: no. ZFS will try to balance writes to
top-level vdevs in a fashion that assures even data distribution. If
your data is equally likely
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote:
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
On 02/21/2013 12:27 AM, Peter Wood wrote:
Will adding another vdev hurt the performance?
In general, the answer is: no. ZFS will try to balance writes to
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
On 02/21/2013 12:27 AM, Peter Wood wrote:
Will adding another vdev hurt the performance?
In general, the answer is: no. ZFS will try to balance writes to
top-level vdevs in a fashion that assures even data distribution. If
your
Currently the pool is about 20% full:
# zpool list pool01
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZCAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
pool01 65.2T 15.4T 49.9T -23% 1.00x ONLINE -
#
The old data and new data will be equally use after adding the vdev.
The FS hold tens of thousands of
Peter Wood wrote:
Currently the pool is about 20% full:
# zpool list pool01
NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZCAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT
pool01 65.2T 15.4T 49.9T -23% 1.00x ONLINE -
#
So you will be about 15% full after adding a new vdev.
Unless you are likely to
