[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS tolerance

[Joshua M. Clulow]

On Sat, 29 Oct 2022 at 10:43, Michelle <michelle at msknight.com> wrote:
> I'm deliberately trying to push the envelope. I believe that ZFS will
> act as a buffer between drives and run at the slowest device speed, but
> I'm wondering if there is a threshold where ever ZFS will throw up its
> hands and give up.
>
> I'm trying to make a ZFS pool focused on resilience, while using drives
> that are already laying around. Performance is understandably going to
> take a hit.
>
> The vision is a pool consisting of a number of mirrored vdevs.
>
> I mean... if I had a load of hard drives on SATA and connected another
> drive via SATA to USB adaptor, would ZFS still handle it and slow down,
> or would it throw a fit?

As long as the devices are merely slow, and not throwing actual
errors, then I would expect that the pool would just exhibit similarly
limited performance also.


Cheers.

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Joshua M. Clulow
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