Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-07 Thread Ross Walker
On Apr 5, 2011, at 4:19 PM, rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: But ... I've been reading about some of the issues with ZFS performance and have discovered that it needs a *lot* of RAM to support decent caching ... the recommendation is for a GByte of RAM per TByte of storage just for the

Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-06 Thread Tracy Reed
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 02:13:01PM -0700, John R Pierce spake thusly: ZFS isn't GPL, therefore can't be integrated into the kernel where a file system belongs, therefore is pretty much relegated to user space It can be patched in by the end user. So if someone were to distribute a patch which

Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-05 Thread rainer
On 4/2/2011 2:54 PM, Dawid Horacio Golebiewski wrote: You might be asking why I didn't choose to make a ~19 TB RAID-5 volume for the native 3ware RAID test That is really a no-brainer. In the time it takes to re-build such a RAID, another disk might just fail and the R in RAID goes down the

Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-05 Thread Chuck Munro
On 04/05/2011 09:00 AM, rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: That is really a no-brainer. In the time it takes to re-build such a RAID, another disk might just fail and the R in RAID goes down the toilet. Your 19-disk RAID5 just got turned into 25kg of scrap-metal. As for ZFS - we're using it

Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-05 Thread rainer
But ... I've been reading about some of the issues with ZFS performance and have discovered that it needs a *lot* of RAM to support decent caching ... the recommendation is for a GByte of RAM per TByte of storage just for the metadata, which can add up. Maybe cache memory starvation is one

Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-04 Thread Ross Walker
On Apr 2, 2011, at 5:28 PM, Dawid Horacy Golebiewski dawid.golebiew...@tu-harburg.de wrote: I pondered Solaris for some time, but as I do not intend to build the OS from scratch and nexenta was to GUIed for me I started researching SME. What puzzled me is the theory and the practice: RAIDz

Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-04 Thread Warren Young
On 4/2/2011 2:54 PM, Dawid Horacio Golebiewski wrote: I do want to use ZFS and I thus far I have only found information about the ZFS-Fuse implementation and unclear hints that there is another way. Here are some benchmark numbers I came up with just a week or two ago. (View with fixed-width

Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-04 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/04/11 8:09 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 4/2/2011 2:54 PM, Dawid Horacio Golebiewski wrote: I do want to use ZFS and I thus far I have only found information about the ZFS-Fuse implementation and unclear hints that there is another way. Here are some benchmark numbers I came up with just a

Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-04 Thread Warren Young
On 4/4/2011 9:17 PM, John R Pierce wrote: try iozone Maybe on the next server. This one can't be reformatted yet again. bonnie++ That's what I used. I just reformatted its results for readability. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-02 Thread Dawid Horacio Golebiewski
I have trouble finding definitive information about this. I am considering the use of SME 7.5.1 (centOS based) for my server needs, but I do want to use ZFS and I thus far I have only found information about the ZFS-Fuse implementation and unclear hints that there is another way. Phoronix reported

Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-02 Thread compdoc
Can so. tell me if fuse-ZFS is more trouble than it's worth? I've tried both fuse-ZFS, and also zfs installed from rpm's on zfsonlinux.org. Both on centos 5.5. fuse-ZFS is more polished, but cut write speeds in half on my raid 5. I ended up going ext4. SME Server is great by the way - been

Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/02/11 1:54 PM, Dawid Horacio Golebiewski wrote: I have trouble finding definitive information about this. I am considering the use of SME 7.5.1 (centOS based) for my server needs, but I do want to use ZFS and I thus far I have only found information about the ZFS-Fuse implementation and

Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-02 Thread Dawid Horacy Golebiewski
I pondered Solaris for some time, but as I do not intend to build the OS from scratch and nexenta was to GUIed for me I started researching SME. What puzzled me is the theory and the practice: RAIDz is the best solution from a theoretical standpoint (maximum features available) but still raid

Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/02/11 2:28 PM, Dawid Horacy Golebiewski wrote: Opensolaris supposedly stopped last February. opensolaris has been superceded by openindiana (full distribution) and illumos (a community developed/supported kernel derived from opensolaris).