ZFS - thanks

[Dan Naumov]

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Peter
Jeremy<peterjeremy at optushome.com.au> wrote:
> On 2009-Jul-09 15:39:35 +0300, Dan Naumov <dan.naumov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>A single 40 disk raidz (DO NOT DO THIS) will have 40 disks total, 39
>>disks worth of space and will definately explode on you sooner rather
>>than later (probably on the first import, export or scrub).
>
> Can you provide a reference for this statement.  AFAIK, the only
> reason for the upper recommended limit of 9 disks is performance.
>
> --
> Peter Jeremy

Searching the different FreeBSD mailing lists (which have had
discussions about such cases) and googling should yield results.

- Sincerely,
Dan Naumov