[OpenIndiana-discuss] WD reds any good for ZFS RAIDZ pools?

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Fri Jun 7 23:39:06 UTC 2013


On Saturday, June 08, 2013 05:23 AM, Paul B. Henson wrote:
>
> For these large drives, raidz2 is recommended, as the likelihood of a 
> second drive failure during a rebuild starts to get pretty high.
>

What's wrong with striped mirrors? raidz2 does not like random i/o. I 
happen to run raidz2 and regret it now.



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