> Has there been any change to the server hardware with
> respect to number of
> drives since ZFS has come out? Many of the servers
> around still have an even
> number of drives (2, 4) etc. and it seems far from
> optimal from a ZFS
> standpoint. All you can do is make one or two
> mirrors, or a 3 way mirror and
> a spare, right? 

With four drives you could also make a RAIDZ3 set, allowing you to have the 
lowest usable space, poorest performance and worst resilver times possible.

Sorry, couldn't resist.
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