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Date:      Fri, 5 Oct 2012 20:48:20 -0700
From:      Richard Elling <richard.elling@gmail.com>
To:        Albert Shih <Albert.Shih@obspm.fr>
Cc:        "zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org" <zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [zfs-discuss] How many disk in one pool
Message-ID:  <6E4F0E82-50D0-450A-A72A-3B7BD3795C5B@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121005205748.GA39237@pcjas.obspm.fr>
References:  <20121005205748.GA39237@pcjas.obspm.fr>

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On Oct 5, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Albert Shih <Albert.Shih@obspm.fr> wrote:

> Hi all,
>=20
> I'm actually running ZFS under FreeBSD. I've a question about how many
> disks I =C2=ABcan=C2=BB have in one pool.=20
>=20
> At this moment I'm running with one server (FreeBSD 9.0) with 4 MD1200
> (Dell) meaning 48 disks. I've configure with 4 raidz2 in the pool (one on
> each MD1200)
>=20
> On what I understand I can add more more MD1200. But if I loose one MD1200=

> for any reason I lost the entire pool.=20
>=20
> In your experience what's the =C2=ABlimit=C2=BB ? 100 disk ?=20

I can't speak for current FreeBSD, but I've seen more than 400
disks (HDDs) in a single pool.

 -- richard




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