ZFS 4k aligned space overhead

[Hans Henrik Happe]

Hi,

I've a system with 3TB WD NAS disks for ZFS. I created a 4k aligned 10 
disk RAIDZ2. I noticed the overhead was ~1.4TB for the file system 
(3*8*10^12/2^40 - <free space>). Then I tried with different number of 
disks:

6: 0.2602885812520981
7: 1.1858475767076015
8: 1.149622268974781
9: 0.7288754601031542
10: 1.3953630803152919
11: 2.061850775964558
12: 2.915792594663799
13: 1.5491229379549623
14: 2.056995471008122
15: 2.5648680040612817
16: 3.0727405650541186
17: 3.5806130981072783
18: 0.7912140190601349

the other good configs (6 and 18) is okay, but it seem strange that 10 
has higher spaceoverhead than 18.

I then tried with RAIDZ:

5: 0.19996666628867388
9: 0.39560710452497005
17: 0.8849408514797688

This seems correct. Then RAIDZ2 again but with ashift=9:

6:  0.2602881230413914
10: 0.4523236369714141
18: 0.7912133224308491

This also seems correct. The 6 and 18 results are basically the same for 
ashift 9 and 12.

Is there an explanation to this?

I'm running FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p3.

Cheers,
Hans Henrik Happe