From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 11 08:40:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45327106566C for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:40:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail11.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail11.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.192]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA0F98FC23 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:40:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c122-106-247-205.belrs3.nsw.optusnet.com.au [122.106.247.205]) by mail11.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n6B8egnl011288 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:40:43 +1000 X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n6B8eg3a014763; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:40:42 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n6B8egZX014762; Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:40:42 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:40:42 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Dan Naumov Message-ID: <20090711084042.GA77702@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20090709112512.GA44158@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> <73a41d4b72d62b0bfe3d0fb7206376a8.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com> <84665df87e93a6ccf24d9837cbc53eba.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS - thanks X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:40:46 -0000 --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2009-Jul-09 15:39:35 +0300, Dan Naumov wrote: >A single 40 disk raidz (DO NOT DO THIS) will have 40 disks total, 39 >disks worth of space and will definately explode on you sooner rather >than later (probably on the first import, export or scrub). Can you provide a reference for this statement. AFAIK, the only reason for the upper recommended limit of 9 disks is performance. --=20 Peter Jeremy --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkpYUAoACgkQ/opHv/APuIecvgCdFq7GwBQOkPMFGHJiM9tjg4xl iIYAmwSg5z4KbFub8yPNktoXvnwYG05y =HDb/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6--