Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: please remove my ignorance of raiding andmirroring

2006-10-02 Thread Keith Clay
On Oct 1, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Anton B. Rang wrote: I was perhaps slightly hasty; RAID-5 is more efficient than a 2- disk mirror for reads, but RAID-10 (striping & mirroring) can match (or slightly exceed) its efficiency for small reads. In both cases, there is a single disk accessed. With

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: please remove my ignorance of raiding andmirroring

2006-10-01 Thread Anton B. Rang
I was perhaps slightly hasty; RAID-5 is more efficient than a 2-disk mirror for reads, but RAID-10 (striping & mirroring) can match (or slightly exceed) its efficiency for small reads. In both cases, there is a single disk accessed. With 4 disks, RAID-1+0 can service four independent reads concu