![]() A zpool is not a funny-looking RAID0-it's a funny-looking JBOD, with a complex distribution mechanism subject to change.įor the most part, writes are distributed across available vdevs in accordance to their available free space, so that all vdevs will theoretically become full at the same time. ![]() It is a common misconception that ZFS "stripes" writes across the pool-but this is inaccurate. Modern zpools can survive the loss of a CACHE or LOG vdev-though they may lose a small amount of dirty data, if they lose a LOG vdev during a power outage or system crash. ![]() Just know up front that in the understated words of OpenZFS developer Matt Ahrens, "it's really complicated."īut before we get to the numbers-and they are coming, I promise!-for all the ways you can shape eight disks' worth of ZFS, we need to talk about how ZFS stores your data on-disk in the first place. Well, today is the day to explore, ZFS-curious readers. In the second of those stories, we even promised a follow-up exploring the performance of various multiple-disk topologies in ZFS, the next-gen filesystem you have heard about because of its appearances everywhere from Apple to Ubuntu.
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