My organization is considering an RFP for MAID storage and we're wondering about potential conflicts between MAID and ZFS.
We want MAID's power management benefits but are concerned that what we understand to be ZFS's use of dynamic striping across devices with filesystem metadata replication and cache syncing will tend to keep disks spinning that the MAID is trying to spin down. Of course, we like ZFS's large namespace and dynamic memory pool resizing ability. Is it possible to configure ZFS to maximize the benefits of MAID? -John =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= John A. Kunze [EMAIL PROTECTED] California Digital Library Work: +1-510-987-9231 415 20th St, #406 http://dot.ucop.edu/home/jak/ Oakland, CA 94612 USA University of California =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
