On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By Better I meant the best practice for a server running the Netbackup > application. > > I am not seeing how using raidz would be a performance hit. Usually stripes > perform faster than mirrors.
raidz performs reads from all devices in parallel, so you get 1 drive's worth of I/O operations, not 6 drives' worth. With 3 mirrors, you'd get 6 drives' worth of reads and 3 drives' worth of writes. Using raidz might get you slightly better read and write bandwidth, though. Scott _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
