> PS> The ZFS administration guide mentions this recommendation, but does not > give PS> any hint as to why. A reader may assume/believe it's just general > adviced, PS> based on someone's opinion that with more than 9 drives, the > statistical PS> probability of failure is too high for raidz (or raid5). > It's a shame the PS> statement in the guide is not further qualified to > actually explain that PS> there is a concrete issue at play. > > I don't know if ZFS MAN pages should teach people about RAID. > > If somebody doesn't understand RAID basics then some kind of tool > where you just specify pool of disk and have to choose from: space > efficient, performance, non-redundant and that's it - all the rest > will be hidden.
But the guide *does* make a recommendation, but does not qualify it. And if there is a problem specific to ZFS that is NOT just obvious results of some general principle, that's very relevant for the ZFS administration guide IMO (and man pages for that matter). -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
