Yep, Solaris ZFS kicks butt.  It does RAID10/5/6, etc and implements most of
the high end features available on high end SANs...

- Luke


On 9/18/06 8:40 PM, "Alex Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Sweet - thats good - RAID 10 support seems like an odd thing to leave out.
> 
> Alex
> 
> On 9/18/06, Luke Lonergan < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote:
>> Alex,
>> 
>> On 9/18/06 4:14 PM, "Alex Turner" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Be warned, the tech specs page:
>>> http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/specs.xml#anchor3
>>> <http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/specs.xml#anchor3>
>>> doesn't mention RAID 10 as a possible, and this is probably what most would
>>> recommend for fast data access if you are doing both read and write
>>> operations.  If you are doing mostly Read, then RAID 5 is passable, but it's
>>> redundancy with large numbers of drives is not so great.
>> 
>> RAID10 works great on the X4500 ­ we get 1.6GB/s + per X4500 using RAID10 in
>> ZFS.  We worked with the Sun Solaris kernel team to make that happen and the
>> patches are part of Solaris 10 Update 3 due out in November.
>> 
>> - Luke
>> 
>> 
> 
> 




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