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> > If you have the same type and columns, then you have the same
> > availability expectations. If instead you take a 5 disk raidz and add a
> > 2 disk stripe, you're dramatically changing the availability
> > expectations. So the force is required.
>
> Certainly, but adding a mirror doesn't degrade the availability expectations,
> so it's a fairly safe addition.
Nonetheless, it's different. It does change the cost expectations, so
you could consider that it's a warning for that reason then.
> I'm sure this is far from simple, but it would be interesting to see zfs
> able to figure out the relative performance characteristics of each of
> its vdevs and spread the load accordingly. :)
There are quite a few ideas around that. Simply the ability to
recognize "slow" storage would be a good idea. Then you can make other
decisions (lower it for write priority? temporarily not use it for
writes? Decide it's so bad that you should fail it?....)
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Darren Dunham ddunham@xxxxxxxx
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area
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