> On 9/12/07, Mike DeMarco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Striping several disks together with a stripe width > that is tuned for your data > > model is how you could get your performance up. > Stripping has been left out > > of the ZFS model for some reason. Where it is true > that RAIDZ will stripe > > the data across a given drive set it does not give > you the option to tune the > > stripe width. Do to the write performance problems > of RAIDZ you may not > > get a performance boost from it stripping if your > write to read ratio is too > > high since the driver has to calculate parity for > each write. > > I am not sure why you think striping has been left > out of the ZFS > model. If you create a ZFS pool without the "raidz" > or "mirror" > keywords, the pool will be striped. Also, the > "recordsize" tunable can > be useful for matching up application I/O to physical > I/O. > > Thanks, > - Ryan > -- > UNIX Administrator > http://prefetch.net > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discu > ss
Oh... How right you are. I dug into the PDFs and read up on Dynamic striping. My bad. ZFS rocks. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
