Hello Anton,

Thursday, January 4, 2007, 3:46:48 AM, you wrote:

>> Is there some reason why a small read on a raidz2 is not statistically very 
>> likely to require I/O on only one device? Assuming a non-degraded pool of 
>> course.

ABR> ZFS stores its checksums for RAIDZ/RAIDZ2 in such a way that all
ABR> disks must be read to compute and verify the checksum.

It's not about the checksum but about how a fs block is stored in
raid-z[12] case - it's spread out to all non-parity disks so in order
to read one fs block you have to read fromm all disks except parity
disks.

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