> On Mar 3, 2016, at 8:35 PM, Fred Liu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Today when I was reading Jeff's new nuclear weapon -- DSSD D5's CUBIC RAID 
> introduction,
> the interesting survey -- the zpool with most disks you have ever built 
> popped in my brain.

We test to 2,000 drives. Beyond 2,000 there are some scalability issues that 
impact failover times.
We’ve identified these and know what to fix, but need a real customer at this 
scale to bump it to
the top of the priority queue.

> 
> For zfs doesn't support nested vdev, the maximum fault tolerance should be 
> three(from raidz3).

Pedantically, it is N, because you can have N-way mirroring.

> It is stranded if you want to build a very huge pool.

Scaling redundancy by increasing parity improves data loss protection by about 
3 orders of 
magnitude. Adding capacity by striping reduces data loss protection by 1/N. 
This is why there is
not much need to go beyond raidz3. However, if you do want to go there, adding 
raidz4+ is 
relatively easy.
 — richard


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