[Chester LUG] ZFS

[Thomas Prophett]

Hi Dave

The problem with a 16 disc Z3 is the resilver time. Take a look at this
link:
http://louwrentius.com/zfs-resilver-performance-of-various-raid-schemas.html



On 14 February 2017 at 15:54, dvd work <workdvdh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> The use case is a flexible archival machine, so I was thinking  one large
> pool, where I would have two or three file systems.
>
> Dave.
>
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2017, 15:27 Thomas Prophett, <thomas at thomasprophett.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> That is a very large single Z3. That many discs i would consider two 8
>> disc Z3s.
>>
>> Whats is the use case?
>>
>> On 14 February 2017 at 15:15, dvd work via Chester <
>> chester at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Wondering if any ZFS users out there and if so have you any suggestions
>> on best way to set up a zpool for machine with 16x1G disks.
>>
>> I was thinking just creation a zpool that uses all the disk and
>> specifying raidz3 e.g.
>>
>> sudo zpool create pool-name raidz3 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd...
>>
>> but are there better approaches?
>>
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>>  Dave.
>>
>>
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