On Sat, 20 Aug 2022 16:14:08 -0700 Kent Borg <[email protected]> wrote:
> More ZFS questions, if I may. > > Is this a sensible command to make a two-disk mirror? > > # zpool create mail-mirror -f -O compression=on mirror sda2 sdb2 > > Am I violating some basic dictate by not doing whole disk? Am I doing > anything else wrong there? Kind of. ZFS in principle knows about disk geometries and how to optimize reads and writes so in principle you should let ZFS manage whole physical devices. > Because after I did this, I started a torture test: [...] > -kb, the Kent who notes the above is all on a Raspberry Pi 4. My limited experience with Raspberries Pi and USB flash is it will always fail under sustained high load. Either insufficient power will cause data loss or overheating components will cause data loss. -- \m/ (--) \m/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
