Yes, the pool would run at the speed of the slowest drive. There is an open RFE to better balance allocations acros variable latency toplevel vdevs, but within a toplevel vdev there's not much we can do; we need to make sure your data is on disk with sufficient replication before returning success.
- Eric On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 01:22:40PM -0500, Christopher Gibbs wrote: > Anyone? > > On 9/14/07, Christopher Gibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suspect it's probably not a good idea but I was wondering if someone > > could clarify the details. > > > > I have 4 250G SATA(150) disks and 1 250G PATA(133) disk. Would it > > cause problems if I created a raidz1 pool across all 5 drives? > > > > I know the PATA drive is slower so would it slow the access across the > > whole pool or just when accessing that disk? > > > > Thanks for your input. > > > > - Chris > > > > > -- > Christopher Gibbs > Email / LDAP Administrator > Web Integration & Programming > Abilene Christian University > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
