ZFS RaidZ2 with 24 drives?

[Ronald Klop]

On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:46:30 +0100, Thomas Burgess <wonslung at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Ronald Klop
> <ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org>wrote:
>
>> Isn't it write caching?
>> My Solaris machine at work also flushes the data every 30 seconds.
>>
>> Ronald.
>>
>> I think you are right.  ZFS does work in bursts...it's very different  
>> than
> what most people expect.  I know it was really  weird to me when i first  
> saw
> it.

So increase your load and you will see a steady stream of bytes when all  
the bursts are clustered together. :-)
BTW: it isn't that weird. UFS does the same, but you probably never build  
a UFS of 24 disks before.

Ronald.