On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Richard Elling wrote:

the disk resources. A pool based on mirror devices will behave much more nicely while being scrubbed than one based on RAIDz2.

The data I have does not show a difference in the disk loading while scrubbing for different pool configs. All HDDs become IOPS bound.

It is true that all HDDs become IOPS bound, but the mirror configuration offers more usable IOPS and therefore the user waits for less time for their request to be satisfied.

Bob
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