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From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:40:40
Message-Id: 523877D3.9020109@libertytrek.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS by Michael Orlitzky
1 On 2013-09-17 11:18 AM, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com> wrote:
2 > Any controller that claims RAID10 on a server with 6 drive bays should
3 > be able to put all six drives in an array. But you'll get a three-way
4 > stripe (better performance) instead of a three-way mirror (better fault
5 > tolerance).
6 >
7 > So,
8 >
9 > A B C
10 > A B C
11 >
12 > and not,
13 >
14 > A B
15 > A B
16 > A B
17 >
18 > The former gives you more space but slightly less fault tolerance than
19 > four drives with a hot spare.
20
21 Sorry, don't understand what you're saying.
22
23 Are you talking about the difference between RAID1+0 and RAID0+1?
24
25 If not, then please point to *authoritative* docs on what you mean.
26
27 Googling on just RAID10 doesn't confuse the issues like you seem to be
28 doing (probably my ignorance though)...

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Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>