July 19, 2013

raidz2: 10 disks vs 8 disks

Leave a Comment / FreeBSD, Open Source, PostgreSQL, ZFS / By Dan Langille / July 19, 2013

Yesterday, I mentioned I wanted to compare raidz2 when using 10 disks versus using 8 disks. Along the way, I noticed that my ZFS-setup script needed a change to cope with mixed devices. Once I got past that hurdle, I started adding packages and setting up the system for some very simple tests. The test […]

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Problem with disk numbering in my ZFS creation script

Leave a Comment / File Systems, FreeBSD, ZFS / By Dan Langille / July 19, 2013

THe last system I set up with ZFS, I used a script. Today, when trying a system with different device types, I encountered a limitation of that script. I need to fix it. In the above script, NUM takes on the value of what digits appear in the string of I. Given that DISKS contains

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