From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 8 10:11:09 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6760106564A for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 10:11:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bstone@aspirinsoftware.com) Received: from mail-qc0-f182.google.com (mail-qc0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79E508FC1A for ; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 10:11:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f182.google.com with SMTP id l39so3323575qcs.13 for ; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 03:11:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=tzY0WVAzdMCP+HZNLFguRNeqz7xfn1NGM0QFyV1vZlg=; b=igRRAf/SdCEGq8h2BVh4wfHi0cIEFUU/JxexRgMxSG1JiXY3d69weSC12LOLS+vDOc Xupfsbrtscg0sESorSLrj0Eq2/cZ7OCRD4xNnqxGFZf2wIkmQHd0afyXrynISBHh08Cl 8wRKffj+2aA2HmTdez8tcu79FIpWlhFJRLy+DJ72zwEcIAIN28QR+scEf7KEqCHtxBuA zkhRvJEm3BDMIFtLeMZWB3zwtH7C3Td0MLKsVVf3QtfoAit6/I8aJeVgwSxjc/z0m9Jr eaiQWhaig8RGdePOg8qWTv+6U9QO3qkkaaLyIQ/8hUGCnp3VErA8WcZ6Dth7cqIyxpSD C8XQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.49.87.163 with SMTP id az3mr40423990qeb.8.1349691068701; Mon, 08 Oct 2012 03:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.104.71 with HTTP; Mon, 8 Oct 2012 03:11:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6E4F0E82-50D0-450A-A72A-3B7BD3795C5B@gmail.com> References: <20121005205748.GA39237@pcjas.obspm.fr> <6E4F0E82-50D0-450A-A72A-3B7BD3795C5B@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2012 18:11:08 +0800 Message-ID: From: Brad Stone To: "zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org" , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQk4G0y4Du2121XzQVaf9nEUfjv/uDmU7nwIZVHsBC5oEGEuwXy/ROjcaPc1YNTo+dwkDWlv Cc: Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] How many disk in one pool X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:11:09 -0000 Here's an example of a ZFS-based product you can buy with a large number of disks in the volume: http://www.aberdeeninc.com/abcatg/petarack.htm 360 3T drives A full petabyte of storage (1080TB) in a single rack, under a single namespace or volume On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Richard Elling wrote: > On Oct 5, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Albert Shih wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm actually running ZFS under FreeBSD. I've a question about how many >> disks I =ABcan=BB have in one pool. >> >> At this moment I'm running with one server (FreeBSD 9.0) with 4 MD1200 >> (Dell) meaning 48 disks. I've configure with 4 raidz2 in the pool (one o= n >> each MD1200) >> >> On what I understand I can add more more MD1200. But if I loose one MD12= 00 >> for any reason I lost the entire pool. >> >> In your experience what's the =ABlimit=BB ? 100 disk ? > > I can't speak for current FreeBSD, but I've seen more than 400 > disks (HDDs) in a single pool. > > -- richard > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss