[zfs-discuss] Myth? 21 disk raidz3: Don't put more than ___ disks in a vdev

2010-10-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
In a discussion a few weeks back, it was mentioned that the Best Practices Guide says something like Don't put more than ___ disks into a single vdev. At first, I challenged this idea, because I see no reason why a 21-disk raidz3 would be bad. It seems like a good thing. I was operating on

Re: [zfs-discuss] Myth? 21 disk raidz3: Don't put more than ___ disks in a vdev

2010-10-20 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 20/10/2010 14:03, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: In a discussion a few weeks back, it was mentioned that the Best Practices Guide says something like Don't put more than ___ disks into a single vdev. At first, I challenged this idea, because I see no reason why a 21-disk raidz3 would be bad. It

Re: [zfs-discuss] Myth? 21 disk raidz3: Don't put more than ___ disks in a vdev

2010-10-20 Thread Richard Elling
On Oct 20, 2010, at 6:03 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: In a discussion a few weeks back, it was mentioned that the Best Practices Guide says something like Don't put more than ___ disks into a single vdev. At first, I challenged this idea, because I see no reason why a 21-disk raidz3 would be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Myth? 21 disk raidz3: Don't put more than ___ disks in a vdev

2010-10-20 Thread Phil Harman
On 20/10/2010 14:48, Darren J Moffat wrote: On 20/10/2010 14:03, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: In a discussion a few weeks back, it was mentioned that the Best Practices Guide says something like Don't put more than ___ disks into a single vdev. At first, I challenged this idea, because I see no

Re: [zfs-discuss] Myth? 21 disk raidz3: Don't put more than ___ disks in a vdev

2010-10-20 Thread Marty Scholes
Richard wrote: Untrue. The performance of a 21-disk raidz3 will be nowhere near the performance of a 20 disk 2-way mirrror. You know this stuff better than I do. Assuming no bus/cpu bottlenecks, a 21 disk raidz3 should provide sequential throughput of 18 disks and random throughput of 1

Re: [zfs-discuss] Myth? 21 disk raidz3: Don't put more than ___ disks in a vdev

2010-10-20 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Marty Scholes wrote: Untrue. The performance of a 21-disk raidz3 will be nowhere near the performance of a 20 disk 2-way mirrror. You know this stuff better than I do. Assuming no bus/cpu bottlenecks, a 21 disk raidz3 should provide sequential throughput of 18 disks