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rleigh on Jan 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linus: Don't Use ZFS

> what? no. why would that be the case? You lose a single disk's performance due to the checksumming.

I think they are probably referring to the write performance of a RAIDZ VDEV being constrained by the performance of the slowest disc within the VDEV.

paulmd on Jan 11, 2020 [–]

true, if you have 7 fast disks and one slow disk in a raidz, you get 7 x slow disk performance.

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