I think most MAID is sold as a (misguided IMHO) replacement for Tape, not as a Tier 1 kind of storage. YMMV.
-- mark John Kunze wrote: > My organization is considering an RFP for MAID storage and we're > wondering about potential conflicts between MAID and ZFS. > > We want MAID's power management benefits but are concerned > that what we understand to be ZFS's use of dynamic striping across > devices with filesystem metadata replication and cache syncing will > tend to keep disks spinning that the MAID is trying to spin down. > Of course, we like ZFS's large namespace and dynamic memory > pool resizing ability. > > Is it possible to configure ZFS to maximize the benefits of MAID? > > -John > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > John A. Kunze [EMAIL PROTECTED] > California Digital Library Work: +1-510-987-9231 > 415 20th St, #406 http://dot.ucop.edu/home/jak/ > Oakland, CA 94612 USA University of California > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
