> Hi. I have a development system on Intel commodity hardware with a > 500G ZFS > root mirror. I have another 500G drive same as the other two. Is there > any > way to use this disk to good advantage in this box? I don't think I > need any > more redundancy, I would like to increase performance if possible. I > have > only one SATA port left so I can only use 3 drives total unless I buy > a PCI > card. Would you please advise me. Many thanks.
A third drive in the mirror (aka three-way mirror) will increase read performance from the pool, as ZFS reads from all drives in a mirror. Theoretically, you'll get a 50% read increase, but I doubt it'll be that high in practice. 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
