Re: [zfs-discuss] 350TB+ storage solution

2011-05-15 Thread Jim Klimov
Hi, Very interesting suggestions as I'm contemplating a Supermicro-based server for my work as well, but probably in a lower budget as a backup store for an aging Thumper (not as its superior replacement). Still, I have a couple of questions regarding your raidz layout recommendation. On one

Re: [zfs-discuss] 350TB+ storage solution

2011-05-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov On one hand, I've read that as current drives get larger (while their random IOPS/MBPS don't grow nearly as fast with new generations), it is becoming more and more reasonable to

Re: [zfs-discuss] bootfs ID on zfs root

2011-05-15 Thread Jim Klimov
Small world... Never seen this problem before your post, and hit it now myself ;) We had an outage on an SXCE snv_117 server today with a data pool taking unknown time to import, so we decided to zpool import -F it. But the feature is lacking in build 117, so we imported the pool into an

Re: [zfs-discuss] 350TB+ storage solution

2011-05-15 Thread Richard Elling
On May 15, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: Hi, Very interesting suggestions as I'm contemplating a Supermicro-based server for my work as well, but probably in a lower budget as a backup store for an aging Thumper (not as its superior replacement). Still, I have a