[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS tolerance

2022-10-29 Thread Michelle
Hi All, I am doing a small idiotic project, putting together odds and sods of hard drives to make a RAID set. You know the kind of thing, the hard drives that are remnants of old projects but you don't want to throw them out because... well... they work! So I was wondering that in a pile of hard

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS tolerance

2022-10-29 Thread Till Wegmueller
Hi It can get yarring. Try to make raids with drives that are similar and combine them into a mutt pool then you should get the least effect. Otherwise the slowest drive may dictate the pools performance. There are more tuning options, but I hope this helps a little. Greetings Till On 29/10/

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS tolerance

2022-10-29 Thread Michelle
Hi Till, Thanks for the feedback. I'm deliberately trying to push the envelope. I believe that ZFS will act as a buffer between drives and run at the slowest device speed, but I'm wondering if there is a threshold where ever ZFS will throw up its hands and give up. I'm trying to make a ZFS pool

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS tolerance

2022-10-29 Thread Philip Robar
I’ve done lots of small pools of random drives-including ones with drives in USB2 cases-over the years and I’ve never had ZFS complain. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS tolerance

2022-10-29 Thread Joshua M. Clulow via openindiana-discuss
On Sat, 29 Oct 2022 at 10:43, Michelle wrote: > I'm deliberately trying to push the envelope. I believe that ZFS will > act as a buffer between drives and run at the slowest device speed, but > I'm wondering if there is a threshold where ever ZFS will throw up its > hands and give up. > > I'm tryi