[OpenIndiana-discuss] Another [OT] Hardware Post

[Johannes Bohse]

Hello Harry,

Am 20.02.2011 05:40, schrieb Harry Putnam:
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> | [Aside: the following drives could as well be 2 TB WD green (as the
> | 1tb WD black shown below) for an extra $33 per,(total $66), but I was
> | not sure if at some point the shear size begins to be a problem by
> | itself for things like scrub or resilvering.
> | 
> | Any comments on that would be welcome too.]
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you do not need to worry about the size. zfs is very efficient in
scrubbing and resilvering. zfs scrubs used sectors only and resilvers
only "missing" transactions. Spare sectors are not involved in both
complexity equations.

HTH,
Jo