ZFS raid write performance?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, kpneal at pobox.com wrote:

> Reading and writing to a raidz* requires touching all or almost all of
> the disks.
>
> Writing to a mirror requires touching all the disks. Reading from a mirror
> requires touching one disk.

Keep in mind that for the same number of disks, using mirrors results 
in more vdevs and less use of precious IOPS.  Also, using mirrors 
results in larger I/O requests since zfs blocks don't need to be 
fragmented.

Bob
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