That's what I figured. That raidz & raidz1 are the same thing. The one 
is just put there to collect confusion ;)

Thanks, Jonny

Tim wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Jonny Gerold <j...@thermeon.com 
> <mailto:j...@thermeon.com>> wrote:
>
>     BTW, is there any difference between raidz & raidz1 (is the one
>     for one
>     disk parity) or does raidz have a parity disk too?
>
>     Thanks, Jonny
>
>
> It depends on who you're talking to I suppose.
>
> I would expect generally "raidz" is describing that you're using Sun's 
> raid algorithm which can be either "raidz1" (one parity drive) or 
> "raidz2" (two parity drives).
>
> It may also be that people are just interchanging the term "raidz" and 
> "raidz1" as well.  I guess most documentation I've seen officially 
> address them as "raidz" or "raidz2", there is no "raidz1".
>
> --Tim

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