Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Adding disk to a RAID-Z?

2007-01-10 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Peter, Thursday, January 11, 2007, 1:08:38 AM, you wrote: >> It's just a common sense advise - for many users keeping raidz groups >> below 9 disks should give good enough performance. However if someone >> creates raidz group of 48 disks he/she probable expects also >> performance and in g

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Adding disk to a RAID-Z?

2007-01-10 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Robert, I read the following section from http://blogs.sun.com/roch/entry/when_to_and_not_to as indicating random writes to a RAID-Z had the performance of a single disk regardless of the group size: Effectively, as a first approximation, an N-disk RAID-Z group will behave as a single

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Adding disk to a RAID-Z?

2007-01-10 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/10/2007 05:16:33 PM: > Hello Jason, > > Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 10:54:29 PM, you wrote: > > JJWW> Hi Kyle, > > JJWW> I think there was a lot of talk about this behavior on the RAIDZ2 vs. > JJWW> RAID-10 thread. My understanding from that discussion was that

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Adding disk to a RAID-Z?

2007-01-10 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Jason, Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 10:54:29 PM, you wrote: JJWW> Hi Kyle, JJWW> I think there was a lot of talk about this behavior on the RAIDZ2 vs. JJWW> RAID-10 thread. My understanding from that discussion was that every JJWW> write stripes the block across all disks on a RAIDZ/Z2 gro

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Adding disk to a RAID-Z?

2007-01-10 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Kyle, Wednesday, January 10, 2007, 5:33:12 PM, you wrote: KM> Remember though that it's been mathematically figured that the KM> disadvantages to RaidZ start to show up after 9 or 10 drives. (That's Well, nothing like this was proved and definitely not mathematically. It's just a common