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It will only process enough data to do those repairs and skip the rest - so a large array built with 4TB drives but that only has a few GB of data stored on it will only end up processing a few GB instead of many TB. Rebuilding a ZFS array is much different - with the raid being part of the filesystem instead of starting at the beginning and processing the entire drive, ZFS will first figure out which files had data on the failed drive to figure out exactly what all data needs to be repaired. It's going to involve moving around 4TB times the number of drives of data, but will do so in a way that matches the best possible workload for spinning disks. If you're rebuilding an array that was made out of 4TB drives and lost one, the rebuild process will involve starting at block 1 on all of the drives, and reading everything and writing the calculated repaired data to the new drive. Rebuilding a md array will generally run as fast as the disk being repaired can take the streaming writes - the other drives involved can usually do their streaming reads faster. Unless you're packing a pile of NVMe drives your CPU will be mostly idle waiting for data from disks to process. The basic XOR parity for raid-5 is so simple I can do the calculations in my head as fast as I can read the data, and while the extra parity for raid-6 does get complicated enough to actually call math it is still trivial for even an older CPU.

#Softraid overhead cpu software

You may translate with Google as there is no english versionĭon't even worry about the CPU usage of software raid - it is negligible. Strato-Panne: 'Wir machen die reinste Hölle durch' - SPIEGEL ONLINE

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Beside the genuine one in Oracle Solaris, ZFS is luckily OpenSource and therefor available in free Solaris forks but also in BSD, Linux or OSX. The principles behind ZFS can be found in many enterprise storage systems like NetApp. I have no confirmation, but Sun started developping ZFS the same time to adress exact these problems like a crash resistent filesystem or checksums to be able to repair verified data from redundancy. Filesystems from that time are simply not good enough for current storage capacities. In 2016 even a tablet or laptop may have more storage than the Sun cluster at that time so you must face similar problems with any storage. Another internet provider was well advised to use hundreds of smaller independent servers instead one large storage to avoid large storage problems. Reason was a crash/powerloss in a Sun storage cluster with the unability to repair via several fschk where each needs some days to run and the lack of a most current backup or the needed time to restore others from backup.

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It was in 2001 when about a third of all german internet sites were offline for a week with a complete dataloss on many of them. Optionally you can add an SSD to extend the readcache but this is much slower than RAMbased caching. Some ZFS systems have 64-512 GB RAM what means that most or nearly all reads for current data are delivered from RAM. More is faster as it is used as Readcache. Oracle where ZFS is native with a 64bit Solaris claims a minumum of 2GB for ZFS solutions with any poolsize. Even with dozens of disks in a ZFS Raid-Z2/3 CPU load is not really relevant today.Ĥ GB RAM is ok for ZFS. The little raid calculation does not matter. With enough RAM and a modern CPU this is even faster than a hardwareraid with less and slower RAM. A nice extra are snaps and the advanced cache mechanism and sync write options that are part of ZFS. So the best solution would be not using Raid-6 with ext4 but using ZFS with a more robust raid than Raid-6 and with a better overall datasecurity due checksums and CopyOnWrite. No partly updated filesystem or raid-arrays - 100% crash resistent by design. The other solution are softwareraid and CopyOnWrite filesystems as there a write is done completely (data, metadata, raidstripe) or not at all. One is a hardware raidcontroller + BBU that can reduce the problem. There are two common ways to handle this. 'Write hole' phenomenon in RAID5, RAID6, RAID1, and other arrays. This is due the write hole problem on Raid-6 On a crash during a write you are in danger of a corrupted filesysten and/or raid array. With any Raid-6 solution, does not matter if softwareraid or hardwareraid, a raid stripeset is written disk by disk sequentially.