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Subject: Re: ZFS guidelines - preparing for future storage expansion
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James R. Van Artsdalen wrote:
>  All of the disks are lit up at the same time: there's no
> one-disk-at-a-time.

Yeah, that is the case for large files but I have seen it slow down alot 
for highly fragmented filesystems with lots of small files.


- Andrew