> Zfs scrub needs to access all written data on all > disks and is usually > disk-seek or disk I/O bound so it is difficult to > keep it from hogging > the disk resources. A pool based on mirror devices > will behave much > more nicely while being scrubbed than one based on > RAIDz2.
Experience seconded entirely. I'd like to repeat that I think we need more efficient load balancing functions in order to keep housekeeping payload manageable. Detrimental side effects of scrub should not be a decision point for choosing certain hardware or redundancy concepts in my opinion. Regards, Tonmaus -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
