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From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 10:12:10
Message-Id: 52382AD9.3070801@libertytrek.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ZFS by Pandu Poluan
1 On 2013-09-17 4:05 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
2 > 2. When comparing performance of 1 (one) drive, of course ZFS will
3 > lose. But when you build a ZFS pool out of 3 pairs of mirrored drives,
4 > throughput will increase significantly as ZFS has the ability to do
5 > 'load-balancing' among mirror-pairs (or, in ZFS parlance, "mirrored
6 > vdevs")
7
8 Hmmm...
9
10 If conventional wisdom is to run a hardware RAID card in JBOD mode, how
11 can you also set it up with mirrored pairs at the same time?
12
13 So, for best performance & reliability, which is it? JBOD mode? Or
14 mirrored vdevs?