Ben Rockwood wrote: > mike wrote: >> 1) Is there a big performance difference between raidz1 and raidz2? In >> traditional RAID I would think there would be since it would have two >> drives of parity to write/read to at the same time. >> > > I haven't benchmarked this specific case in some time, but in my > experience I couldn't call it "big". > >> 2) Can the ZFS boot/root volumes be using the same devices as the >> normal volumes? Like one raidz pool that is used for data (like >> normal) but also used for ZFS boot? >> > > That would involve putting pools on disk partitions, and I'm not certain > how that would effect the bootloader code.
A downside to the performance in putting pools on a partition as opposed to the entire disk is that ZFS turns off the write cache in case of the former. You might want to check if that is of concern in your setup. Pavan _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
