Re: Request for opinions - gvinum or ccd?

On 2009-05-31 13:13:24, krad wrote:
> Please don't whack gstripe and zfs together. It should work but is ugly and
> you might run into issues. Getting out of them will be harder than a pure
> zfs solution

Yeah, will be using pure ZFS having read everything I can find on it so far.
I was skeptical of ZFS at first as it appeared to have come out of nowhere
but it seems it's older (and more mature) than I thought.

> ZFS does support striping by default across vdevs
> 
> Eg
> 
> Zpool create data da1
> Zpool add data da2
> 
> Would create a striped data set across da1  and da2

What kind of performance gain can I expect from this? I'm purely thinking
about performance now - the integrity checking stuff of ZFS is a pleasant
extra.

> Just for fun here is one of the configs off one of our sun x4500 at work,
> its opensolaris not freebsd, but it is zfs. One whoping big array of ~ 28 TB

Impressive!

> Hope this helps, im really looking forward to zfs maturing on bsd and having
> pure zfs systems 8)

Absolutely.

xw
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