From owner-freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Fri Mar 4 05:14:43 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C30469DAEF3; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 05:14:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x231.google.com (mail-ig0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 892AAEC1; Fri, 4 Mar 2016 05:14:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fjwcash@gmail.com) Received: by mail-ig0-x231.google.com with SMTP id g6so3646657igt.1; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 21:14:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc; bh=5Z1gJ4aEiPZcVdlW3BJaif1Mvu3T9EWGyCLZ7Gbzpp4=; b=N1raiAZ975lVT1wzgSxmNLnCs7Gs+dwVFMaWoOahNGdype7l5PioOwwv9Z2opSYMe+ YSfyZEhz2L+OXrlGp/Fsxh6CZ84sF7yZTn8aNs5DcXwdRbphzeczvqc5pC4XNbytQpqx lQdaqtKz2W06xdFY8Dk5LAqez15FJhXqMEdIohB8BVKO+5lbJs7FwPz6N5UGf2YEGlKx 3G7J/bDspPj/l61e/Te2ttggP6vU/r4Y1a9nC+cjOweW4HOSXNMTxKhQYhii4eDUyq0p t7yrV8xRvwyTBe5i5GRHMO0HroyjJEm2MBwC1mep6xigzNiBKgfghcKB9KQjrPFSrAKi GOrQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc; bh=5Z1gJ4aEiPZcVdlW3BJaif1Mvu3T9EWGyCLZ7Gbzpp4=; b=BeSdAkvHVEcuJOHa97ubZU5vAa2v95fc8TTiTVk06cKC/DNRx4eKsLdE7Y9mMAHbvj 36vyzrB4/wnV8tM6Ooa8T1JLopTa8Py2knZUBuHRTsJn+qmxpkQO2dGY9T2MX5Qv+/iT OUkvjuxTKWUAzyfDMEI66ffGKymTENOIVmgMiBWu8lCJRiKRmpFjBk0fSdd9SJIcS4zR o6vS0jKboaS2IRcmvD7GRw8UvCL9AC5VPEh7NJMDZkB4Uk5Chrcl4tZhe+LUZmo3Bbxn nynY9FfNgquTxTDI5LXf/w8qW/ecr25JLdmiKhIPi9SekeU/a2Bn06TVnUnWBUMdeKlJ ZrKQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJKbJCtJKFGeP12mCnxu/0XcUSyRal9MvwRvn0SEeHVnyMp708XnW8YQltv0vF3z/sJFTZDUC2H90XVaYA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.70.39 with SMTP id j7mr2851072igu.40.1457068482858; Thu, 03 Mar 2016 21:14:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.107.140.129 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Mar 2016 21:14:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.107.140.129 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Mar 2016 21:14:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <95563acb-d27b-4d4b-b8f3-afeb87a3d599@me.com> <56D87784.4090103@broken.net> Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 21:14:42 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [zfs] an interesting survey -- the zpool with most disks you have ever built From: Freddie Cash To: zfs@lists.illumos.org Cc: omnios-discuss , illumos-dev , "freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org" , "zfs-devel@freebsd.org" , Discussion list for OpenIndiana , developer , "developer@lists.open-zfs.org" , "zfs-discuss@list.zfsonlinux.org" , "smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 12:12:21 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.21 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2016 05:14:44 -0000 On Mar 3, 2016 8:36 PM, "Fred Liu" wrote: > > Hi, > > Today when I was reading Jeff's new nuclear weapon -- DSSD D5's CUBIC RAID introduction, > the interesting survey -- the zpool with most disks you have ever built popped in my brain. We have two backups servers with 90 drives each (2x 45-bay JBODs connected to a head unit using LSI 9211-8e controllers) configured into 6-disk raidz2 vdevs in a single storage pool. They'll support 4x JBODs each without daisy-chaining, although we don't have plans for don't that for another couple years.