On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 08:42:39PM +0000, Alex Adriaanse wrote: > Thanks, your email is incredibly helpful. As far as the raidz2 vdevs are > concerned, I keep reading on the Internet that for raidz2 you should have an > even number of disks. Is this valid advice? If so, what’s the logic behind > this (or if it’s not valid, why do people keep making this recommendation)?
I don't know. I've always taken these things to be cargo cult, but I'd suggest you ask on one of the ZFS mailing lists or check their archives. I can say that we haven't suffered any noticeable ill effects in our configuration. ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
