> How bad would raidz2 do on mostly sequential writes and reads > (Athlon64 single-core, 4 GByte RAM, FreeBSD 8.2)? > > The best way is to go is striping mirrored pools, right? > I'm worried about losing the two "wrong" drives out of 8. > These are all 7200.11 Seagates, refurbished. I'd scrub > once a week, that'd probably suck on raidz2, too?
I see no problems with that. I've had rather large pools in production with 'commodity' drives without much issues. Every now and then a drive fails, but then, no pool failures yet. Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 97542685 r...@karlsbakk.net http://blogg.karlsbakk.net/ -- I all pedagogikk er det essensielt at pensum presenteres intelligibelt. Det er et elementært imperativ for alle pedagoger å unngå eksessiv anvendelse av idiomer med fremmed opprinnelse. I de fleste tilfeller eksisterer adekvate og relevante synonymer på norsk. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
