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Date:      Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:36:56 +0200
From:      Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com>
To:        Matt Reimer <mattjreimer@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, rnoland@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: booting off a ZFS pool consisting of multiple striped mirror  vdevs
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Matt Reimer <mattjreimer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Matt Reimer <mattjreimer@gmail.com> wro=
te:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:38 AM, Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
>>>
>>> > I don't know, but I plan to test that scenario in a few days.
>>> >
>>> > Matt
>>>
>>> Please share the results when you're done, I am really curious :)
>>
>> Booting from a stripe of two raidz vdevs works:
>> FreeBSD/i386 boot
>> Default: doom:/boot/zfsloader
>> boot: status
>> pool: doom
>> config:
>> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0NAME =A0 =A0 =A0STATE
>> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0doom =A0 =A0 ONLINE
>> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0raidz1 =A0 =A0 ONLINE
>> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0label/doom-0 =A0 =A0 ONLINE
>> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0label/doom-1 =A0 =A0 ONLINE
>> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0label/doom-2 =A0 =A0 ONLINE
>> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0raidz1 =A0 =A0 ONLINE
>> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0label/doom-3 =A0 =A0 ONLINE
>> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0label/doom-4 =A0 =A0 ONLINE
>> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0label/doom-5 =A0 =A0 ONLINE
>> I'd guess a stripe of mirrors would work fine too. If I get a chance I'l=
l
>> test that combo.
>
> A stripe of three-way mirrors works:
> FreeBSD/i386 boot
> Default: mithril:/boot/zfsloader
> boot: status
> pool: mithril
> config:
> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0NAME =A0 =A0 =A0STATE
> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 mithril =A0 =A0 ONLINE
> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0mirror =A0 =A0 ONLINE
> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0label/mithril-0 =A0 =A0 ONLINE
> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0label/mithril-1 =A0 =A0 ONLINE
> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0label/mithril-2 =A0 =A0 ONLINE
> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0mirror =A0 =A0 ONLINE
> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0label/mithril-3 =A0 =A0 ONLINE
> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0label/mithril-4 =A0 =A0 ONLINE
> =A0=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0label/mithril-5 =A0 =A0 ONLINE
> Matt

A stripe of 3-way mirrors, whoa. Out of curiosity, what is the system
used for? I am not doubting that there exist some uses/workloads for a
system that uses 6 disks with 2 disks worth of usable space, but
that's a bit of an unusual configuration. What are your system/disc
specs and what kind of performance are you seeing from the pool?

- Sincerely,
Dan Naumov



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