Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Storage Pool advice

2006-12-12 Thread Richard Elling
Kory Wheatley wrote: This question is concerning ZFS. We have a Sun Fire V890 attached to a EMC disk array. Here's are plan to incorporate ZFS: On our EMC storage array we will create 3 LUNS. Now how would ZFS be used for the best performance? What I'm trying to ask is if you have 3 LUNS

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Storage Pool advice

2006-12-12 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Kory, It depends on the capabilities of your array in our experience...and also the zpool type. If you're going to do RAID-Z in a write intensive environment you're going to have a lot more I/Os with three LUNs then a single large LUN. Your controller may go nutty. Also, (Richard can address