> if zfs overlaps mirror reads across devices.
it does... I have one very old disk in this mirror and when I attach another element one can see more reads going to the faster disks... this past isn't right after the attach but since the reboot, but one can still see the reads are load balanced depending on the response of elements in the vdev. 13 % zpool iostat -v capacity operations bandwidth pool used avail read write read write ---------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- rpool 7.01G 142G 0 0 1.60K 1.44K mirror 7.01G 142G 0 0 1.60K 1.44K c9t1d0s0 - - 0 0 674 1.46K c9t2d0s0 - - 0 0 687 1.46K c9t3d0s0 - - 0 0 720 1.46K c9t4d0s0 - - 0 0 750 1.46K but I also support your conclusions. Rob _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss