FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

[Ivan Voras]

Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> 2) ZFS RAID-z turns your X drives to single drive performance both on 
> read and write. every normal RAID-5 implementation will give you random 
> read speed of X-1 times single drive speed, while slow random write 
> speeds (but still at least half of single drive). but this is advertised 
> as a feature

Is this because of checksum verification (the need to read all 
components) or something else? Any documentation/references?



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