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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2021 17:13:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4686541.31r3eYUQgx@iris> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7622209.dfAi7KttbR@robert-notebook>

On Thursday, July 1, 2021 3:47:08 PM CEST Robert David wrote:

> In any of my data arrays I have long time migrated off the RAIDZ to the
> MIRROR or RAID10. You will find finally that the RAIDZ is slow and not
> very flexible. Only think you gain is the extra space in constrained
> array spaces. For RAID10 it is much easier to raise the size, just
> resilvering to new bigger disks, removing old and expanding. The
> resilvering speed is magnitude faster. And anyway much easier to recover
> in cases of failure.

multiple RAIDZ2 vdevs with a fast enough I/O can easily saturate multiple 
10Gbit links. I actually have 2 pools in my system, one is using tripple-
mirrored VDEVs, the other 6-disk RAIDZ2 sets.

Both are easily capable of saturating the 10gbit link I use.

--
Joost




      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-02 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-29 13:56 [gentoo-user] [OT] Using an odd number of drives in ZFS RaidZ Frank Steinmetzger
2021-06-30 20:00 ` antlists
2021-06-30 23:31   ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-06-30 20:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-06-30 23:31   ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-01  1:29     ` William Kenworthy
2021-07-02 15:09       ` J. Roeleveld
2021-07-01 15:07     ` antlists
2021-07-01 17:21       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-01 13:47 ` Robert David
2021-07-01 15:01   ` antlists
2021-07-01 17:35     ` Frank Steinmetzger
2021-07-04 10:56     ` Robert David
2021-07-02 15:13   ` J. Roeleveld [this message]

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