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Date:      Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:33:44 -0800
From:      matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-fs <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ZFS regimen: scrub, scrub, scrub and scrub again.
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On 01/23/13 14:27, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>
>
> both "works". For todays trend of solving everything by more hardware
> ZFS may even have "enough" performance.
>
> But still it is dangerous for a reasons i explained, as well as it
> promotes bad setups and layouts like making single filesystem out of
> large amount of disks. This is bad for no matter what filesystem and
> RAID setup you use, or even what OS.
>
>
ZFS mirror performance is quite good (both random IO and sequential),
and resilvers/scrubs are measured in an hour or less. You can always
make pool out of these instead of RAIDZ if you can get away with less
total available space.

I think RAIDZ vs Gmirror is a bad comparison, you can use a ZFS mirror
with all the ZFS features, plus N-way (not sure if gmirror does this).

Regarding single large filesystems, there is an old saying about not
putting all your eggs into one basket, even if it's a great basket :)

Matt





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