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I didn't say "increase disk utilization with Swift", I said ZFS does not use the whole disk when you add a new large disk unless you replace the entire vdev wor
by gsmethells 10y ago
I didn't say "increase disk utilization with Swift", I said ZFS does not use the whole disk when you add a new large disk unless you replace the entire vdev worth of disks. Swift treats each disk individually and uses weighting to deal with heterogeneous disk sizes which is much cleaner.
- Annatar 10y agoReplacement of entire disks to grow the pool is simply a different way of adding capacity, because ZFS is based on different paradigms than what one is used to with run of the mill implementations; however, in practice, it's a much simpler and therefore much more reliable way to extend capacity. The units are simply entire larger disks. Swift is also how many orders of magnitude more complex?