Question on ZFS and redundancy

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2012, Andy Young wrote:
>
> Now with ZFS and raidz2 I love the fact that I can use a single pool to
> spread data across multiple vdevs. However, the vdevs aren't independent
> anymore right? Because ZFS stripes data across the vdevs, if I lose three
> drives in a single vdev, doesn't this put the entire pool at risk?

Yes.  It is a bigger basket.  If you need a stronger basket, consider 
raidz3 and/or pay close attention to the physical layout and 
connectivity of the drives so that there is the least opportunity for 
the drives to share the same problem.

Bob
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