D'oh. I shouldn't answer questions first thing Monday morning.
I think you test this configuration with and without the
underlying hardware RAID.
If RAIDZ is the right redundancy level for your workload,
you might be pleasantly surprised with a RAIDZ configuration
built on the h/w raid array in JBOD mode.
http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide
cs
On 08/15/11 08:41, Cindy Swearingen wrote:
Hi Tom,
I think you test this configuration with and without the
underlying hardware RAID.
If RAIDZ is the right redundancy level for your workload,
you might be pleasantly surprised.
http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide
Thanks,
Cindy
On 08/12/11 19:34, Tom Tang wrote:
Suppose I want to build a 100-drive storage system, wondering if there
is any disadvantages for me to setup 20 arrays of HW RAID0 (5 drives
each), then setup ZFS file system on these 20 virtual drives and
configure them as RAIDZ?
I understand people always say ZFS doesn't prefer HW RAID. Under this
case, the HW RAID0 is only for stripping (allows higher data transfer
rate), while the actual RAID5 (i.e. RAIDZ) is done via ZFS which takes
care all the checksum/error detection/auto-repair. I guess this will
not affect any advantages of using ZFS, while I could get higher data
transfer rate. Wondering if it's the case?
Any suggestion or comment? Please kindly advise. Thanks!
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