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A set of 5 stripes of mirrors has the same problem that the comment brought up - losing the _wrong_ two disks loses all of your data. In this case, going to ra
by eatstoomuchjam 10y ago
A set of 5 stripes of mirrors has the same problem that the comment brought up - losing the _wrong_ two disks loses all of your data.
In this case, going to raidz2 across all 12 disks would give an extra disk worth of capacity/performance with the ability to lose any 2 disks without data loss and going to raidz3 should give the same capacity/performance with the ability to lose any 3 disks without data loss.
- ewwhite 10y agoHot spares and monitoring. RaidZ2 across that number of drives is a performance nightmare and against ZFS best practices.