Demonstrating ZFS pool write distribution
Published by Jim Salter // July 27th, 2017
One of my pet peeves is people talking about zfs “striping” writes across a pool. It doesn’t help any that zfs core developers use this terminology too – but it’s sloppy and not really correct. ZFS distributes writes among all the vdevs in a pool. If your vdevs all have the same amount of free space available, this will resemble a simple striping action closely enough. But if you have different amounts of free space on different […]
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