Hi Folks, A couple of my users have decided to stand up a large data store machine (NAS?) with as many as 44-ea 12-TB disks.  They've grown weary of my way of doing things and are thinking about using only one or two HBA boards instead of a RAID adapter.  Then, they're looking at doing software RAID using ZFS. Does anyone here have any experience with ZFS? How does it compare with Btrfs?  ZFS performance suffers when an array starts to fill up, how does Btrfs handle full arrays? How many disks can be configured with RAID6 (or equivalent)?  In other words, is there some maximum number of disks in a single array that if exceeded will cause performance degradation?  I've had as many as 23-disks in a single hardware RAID6 array and it seems to work okay. Thanks in advance for any words of wisdom, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org