Add new Basics concepts section + add draid howto there

Signed-off-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
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dRAID Howto
===========
.. note::
This page a describes *work in progress* functionality, which is not yet
merged in master branch.
Introduction
============
------------
raidz vs draid
--------------
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ZFS users are most likely very familiar with raidz already, so a
comparison with draid would help. The illustrations below are
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the recommended readings in the next section.
Recommended Reading
-------------------
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Parity declustering (the fancy term for shuffling drives) has been an
active research topic, and many papers have been published in this area.
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loosely based on the mechanism described in this paper.
Using dRAID
===========
-----------
First get the code `here <https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/10102>`__,
build zfs with *configure --enable-debug*, and install. Then load the
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- zfs_vdev_async_write_min_active=4
Create a dRAID vdev
-------------------
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Similar to raidz vdev a dRAID vdev can be created using the
``zpool create`` command:
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in degraded mode.
Rebuild to distributed spare
----------------------------
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When there's a failed/offline child drive, the dRAID vdev supports a
completely new mechanism to reconstruct lost data/parity, in addition to
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process by default will not. The rebalance (which is essentially
resilver) can speed up a lot by setting module option
*zfs_no_resilver_skip* to 0. This feature is turned off by default
because of issue
`https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/5806 <https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/5806>`__.
because of issue :issue:`5806`.
Troubleshooting
===============
---------------
Please report bugs to `the dRAID
PR <https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/10102>`__, as long as the
code is not merged upstream.
.. |raidz1| image:: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6722662/23642396/9790e432-02b7-11e7-8198-ae9f17c61d85.png
.. |draid1| image:: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/6722662/23642395/9783ef8e-02b7-11e7-8d7e-31d1053ee4ff.png
.. |raidz1| image:: /_static/img/draid_raidz.png
.. |draid1| image:: /_static/img/draid_draid.png

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Basic concepts
==============
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
:caption: Contents:
:glob:
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