Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Distro Advice

2013-02-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
-discuss -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Distro Advice

2013-02-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:01:39PM +0100, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 02/26/2013 05:57 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:51:08AM -0800, Gary Driggs wrote: On Feb 26, 2013, at 12:44 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: I'd also recommend that you go and subscribe to z...@lists.illumos.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:21:33PM -0600, Phillip Wagstrom wrote: Eugen, Thanks Phillip and others, most illuminating (pun intended). Be aware that p0 corresponds to the entire disk, regardless of how it is partitioned with fdisk. The fdisk partitions are 1 - 4. By using p0 for

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 06:57:44PM -, Robert Milkowski wrote: Personally, I'd recommend putting a standard Solaris fdisk partition on the drive and creating the two slices under that. Why? In most cases giving zfs an entire disk is the best option. I wouldn't bother with any

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 06:02:40PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Happy $holidays, I have a pool of 8x ST31000340AS on an LSI 8-port adapter as Just a little update on the home NAS project. I've set the pool sync to disabled, and added a couple of 8. c4t1d0 ATA-INTELSSDSA2M080-02G9 cyl

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 12:44:26PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: On Jan 3, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 06:02:40PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Happy $holidays, I have a pool of 8x ST31000340AS on an LSI 8-port adapter as Just

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:21:33PM -0600, Phillip Wagstrom wrote: Eugen, Be aware that p0 corresponds to the entire disk, regardless of how it is partitioned with fdisk. The fdisk partitions are 1 - 4. By using p0 for log and p1 for cache, you could very well be writing to same

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:44:54PM -0600, Phillip Wagstrom wrote: On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:21:33PM -0600, Phillip Wagstrom wrote: Eugen, Be aware that p0 corresponds to the entire disk, regardless of how it is partitioned

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:40:39AM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: On Dec 30, 2012, at 9:02 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: The system is a MSI E350DM-E33 with 8 GByte PC1333 DDR3 memory, no ECC. All the systems have Intel NICs with mtu 9000 enabled, including all switches in the path

[zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2012-12-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
Happy $holidays, I have a pool of 8x ST31000340AS on an LSI 8-port adapter as a raidz3 (no compression nor dedup) with reasonable bonnie++ 1.03 values, e.g. 145 MByte/s Seq-Write @ 48% CPU and 291 MByte/s Seq-Read @ 53% CPU. It scrubs with 230+ MByte/s with reasonable system load. No hybrid

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sonnet Tempo SSD supported?

2012-12-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 06:28:17PM -0500, Peter Tripp wrote: HI Eugen, Whether it's compatible entirely depends on the chipset of the SATA controller. This is what I was trying to find out. I guess I just have to test it empirically. Basically that card is just a dual port 6gbps PCIe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sonnet Tempo SSD supported?

2012-12-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 03:38:07AM -0800, Gary Driggs wrote: On Dec 4, 2012, Eugen Leitl wrote: Either way I'll know the hardware support situation soon enough. Have you tried contacting Sonnet? No, but I did some digging. It *might* be a Marvell 88SX7042, which would be then supported

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sonnet Tempo SSD supported?

2012-12-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 11:07:17AM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 06:28:17PM -0500, Peter Tripp wrote: HI Eugen, Whether it's compatible entirely depends on the chipset of the SATA controller. This is what I was trying to find out. I guess I just have to test

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on SunFire X2100M2 with hybrid pools

2012-11-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:12:43PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Eugen Leitl can I make e.g. LSI SAS3442E directly do SSD caching (it says

[zfs-discuss] zfs on SunFire X2100M2 with hybrid pools

2012-11-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
Dear internets, I've got an old SunFire X2100M2 with 6-8 GBytes ECC RAM, which I wanted to put into use with Linux, using the Linux VServer patch (an analogon to zones), and 2x 2 TByte nearline (WD RE4) drives. It occured to me that the 1U case had enough space to add some SSDs (e.g. 2-4 80

[zfs-discuss] mixing WD20EFRX and WD2002FYPS in one pool

2012-11-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
Hi, after a flaky 8-drive Linux RAID10 just shredded about 2 TByte worth of my data at home (conveniently just before I could make a backup) I've decided to both go full redundancy as well as all zfs at home. A couple questions: is there a way to make WD20EFRX (2 TByte, 4k sectors) and WD200FYPS

Re: [zfs-discuss] mixing WD20EFRX and WD2002FYPS in one pool

2012-11-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 08:31:23AM -0700, Jan Owoc wrote: HI Eugen, On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: Secondly, has anyone managed to run OpenIndiana on an AMD E-350 (MSI E350DM-E33)? If it doesn't work, my only options would be all-in-one with ESXi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:57:21AM +, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: Yes you can, with the help of Dell, install OMSA to get the web interface to manage the PERC. But it's a pain, and there is no equivalent option for most HBA's. Specifcally, on my

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 12:58:04PM +0100, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 11/07/2012 12:39 PM, Tiernan OToole wrote: Morning all... I have a Dedicated server in a data center in Germany, and it has 2 3TB drives, but only software RAID. I have got them to install VMWare ESXi and so far

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 01:33:41PM +0100, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 11/07/2012 01:16 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: I'm very interested, as I'm currently working on an all-in-one with ESXi (using N40L for prototype and zfs send target, and a Supermicro ESXi box for production with guests, all booted

[zfs-discuss] [Freenas-announce] FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE

2012-10-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
/ ___ Freenas-announce mailing list freenas-annou...@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freenas-announce - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

[zfs-discuss] looking for slides for basic zfs intro

2012-10-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
Hi, I would like to give a short talk at my organisation in order to sell them on zfs in general, and on zfs-all-in-one and zfs as remote backup (zfs send). Does anyone have a short set of presentation slides or maybe a short video I could pillage for that purpose? Thanks. -- Eugen

[zfs-discuss] OT: does the LSI 9211-8i fit into the HP N40L?

2012-09-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
you go for 2x mirror for L2ARC and 2x mirror for ZIL? Some other configuration? Thanks! -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE

[zfs-discuss] all in one server

2012-09-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
I'm currently thinking about rolling a variant of http://www.napp-it.org/napp-it/all-in-one/index_en.html with remote backup (via snapshot and send) to 2-3 other (HP N40L-based) zfs boxes for production in our organisation. The systems themselves would be either Dell or Supermicro (latter with

Re: [zfs-discuss] what have you been buying for slog and l2arc?

2012-08-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:39:55PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: For the slog, you should look for a SLC technology SSD which saves unwritten data on power failure. In Intel-speak, this is called Enhanced Power Loss Data Protection. I am not running across any Intel SSDs which claim

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] LZ4 compression algorithm

2012-07-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
/member/?member_id=22842876id_secret=22842876-a25d3366 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http

[zfs-discuss] [Freenas-announce] FreeNAS 8.2.0-RC1

2012-07-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freenas-announce - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE

[zfs-discuss] Solaris derivate with the best long-term future

2012-07-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
As a napp-it user who recently needs to upgrade from NexentaCore I recently saw preferred for OpenIndiana live but running under Illumian, NexentaCore and Solaris 11 (Express) as a system recommendation for napp-it. I wonder about the future of OpenIndiana and Illumian, which fork is likely to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris derivate with the best long-term future

2012-07-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
by storage capacity Nexenta Enterprise platform charge U $$ for raw capacity I'm currently using NexentaCore which is EOL. It seems my choices are either OpenIndiana or Illumian, which seem to be very closely related. On 7/11/2012 7:51 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: As a napp-it user who recently needs

[zfs-discuss] making network configuration sticky in nexenta core/napp-it

2012-01-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
Sorry for an off-topic question, but anyone knows how to make network configuration (done with ifconfig/route add) sticky in nexenta core/napp-it? After reboot system reverts to 0.0.0.0 and doesn't listen to /etc/defaultrouter Thanks. ___ zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] status iCore

2011-11-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
killed the Solaris star? -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel 320 as ZIL?

2011-08-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
3.1). -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: [zfs-discuss] trouble adding log and cache on SSD to a pool

2011-08-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 07:19:56PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: Upgrading to hacked N36L BIOS seems to have done the trick: eugen@nexenta:~$ zpool status tank pool: tank state: ONLINE scan: none requested config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM tank

Re: [zfs-discuss] trouble adding log and cache on SSD to a pool

2011-08-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
0 0 errors: No known data errors Anecdotally, the drive noise and system load have gone down as well. It seems even with small SSDs hybrid pools are definitely worthwhile. On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:43:02AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: I think I've found the source of my problem: I need

Re: [zfs-discuss] [vserver] hybrid zfs pools as iSCSI targets for vserver

2011-08-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
-To: vser...@list.linux-vserver.org X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 21:40 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: I've recently figured out how to make low-end hardware (e.g. HP N36L) work well as zfs hybrid pools. The system (Nexenta Core + napp-it) exports the zfs pools as CIFS, NFS or iSCSI

Re: [zfs-discuss] [vserver] hybrid zfs pools as iSCSI targets for vserver

2011-08-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110621 Red Hat/3.1.11-2.el6_1 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 On 08/06/2011 09:30 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 21:40 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: I've recently figured out how to make low-end hardware (e.g

Re: [zfs-discuss] trouble adding log and cache on SSD to a pool

2011-08-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 11:58:47PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 02:43:30PM -0700, Larry Liu wrote: root@nexenta:/export/home/eugen# zpool add tank log /dev/dsk/c3d1p0 You should use c3d1s0 here. Th root@nexenta:/export/home/eugen# zpool add tank cache /dev/dsk

Re: [zfs-discuss] trouble adding log and cache on SSD to a pool

2011-08-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
results. The main one being no emails from Nexenta informing you that the syspool has moved to a degraded state when it actually hasn’t :) ... On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 09:05:07AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 11:58:47PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 02:43

[zfs-discuss] trouble adding log and cache on SSD to a pool

2011-08-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
5 00:45 /dev/dsk/c3d1s8 - ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci-ide@14,1/ide@0/cmdk@1,0:i lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Aug 5 00:45 /dev/dsk/c3d1s9 - ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci-ide@14,1/ide@0/cmdk@1,0:j It's probably something blindingly obvious to a seasoned Solaris user, but I'm stumped. Any ideas? -- Eugen

Re: [zfs-discuss] trouble adding log and cache on SSD to a pool

2011-08-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
: No known data errors -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCore 3.1 - ZFS V. 28

2011-07-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:56:38PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: apt-get update apt-clone upgrade Any first impressions? I finally came around installing NexentaCore 3.1 along with napp-it and AMP on a HP N36L with 8 GBytes RAM. I'm testing it with 4x 1 and 1.5 TByte consumer SATA drives

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCore 3.1 - ZFS V. 28

2011-07-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
the internal USB and external eSATA ports are good for. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443

[zfs-discuss] NexentaCore 3.1 - ZFS V. 28

2011-07-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
apt-get update apt-clone upgrade Any first impressions? -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779

[zfs-discuss] Backblaze likes Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 HDS5C3030ALA630

2011-07-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/ Seem to be real 512 Byte sectors, too. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zil on multiple usb keys

2011-07-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
500gb drives stripped) but writes top out at about 10 and drop a lot lower... If I where to add a couple usb keys for zil, would it make a difference? Speaking of which, is there a point in using an eSATA flash stick? If yes, which? -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http

[zfs-discuss] RealSSD C300 - Crucial CT064M4SSD2

2011-06-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
Anyone running a Crucial CT064M4SSD2? Any good, or should I try getting a RealSSD C300, as long as these are still available? -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http

Re: [zfs-discuss] optimal layout for 8x 1 TByte SATA (consumer)

2011-05-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
raidz2 or mirrored pools will be. This is purely my speculation, but now that I thought about it, can't get rid of the idea ;) ... -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http

[zfs-discuss] optimal layout for 8x 1 TByte SATA (consumer)

2011-05-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
, that'd probably suck on raidz2, too? Thanks. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29

Re: [zfs-discuss] [cryptography] rolling hashes, EDC/ECC vs MAC/MIC, etc.

2011-05-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
-- ___ cryptography mailing list cryptogra...@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100

Re: [zfs-discuss] [cryptography] rolling hashes, EDC/ECC vs MAC/MIC, etc.

2011-05-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
this idea. Regards, Zooko ___ cryptography mailing list cryptogra...@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
not bother with compression? The data set is a lot of scanned documents, already compressed (TIF and PDF). I presume the incidence of identical blocks will be very low under such circumstances. Oh, and with 4x 3 TByte SATA mirrored pool is pretty much without alternative, right? -- Eugen* Leitl

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP ProLiant N36L

2011-01-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
). Known problem? Should I go to stable, or try NexentaStor instead? (I'd rather keep options open with Nexenta Core and napp-it). -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http

[zfs-discuss] OT: anyone aware how to obtain 1.8.0 for X2100M2?

2010-12-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
I realize this is off-topic, but Oracle has completely screwed up the support site from Sun. I figured someone here would know how to obtain Sun Fire X2100 M2 Server Software 1.8.0 Image contents: * BIOS is version 3A21 * SP is updated to version 3.24 (ELOM) * Chipset driver is

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3TB HDD in ZFS

2010-12-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
drive. Consider it a fancy anti-shock packaging. What about Hitachi HDS723030ALA640 (aka Deskstar 7K3000, claimed 24/7)? -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
with an SSD. That's all I run in my laptops now. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ESX to ZFS

2010-11-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
, to use ZFS storage on ESX(i)? Why do you think 10 GBit Ethernet is expensive? An Intel NIC is 200 EUR, and a crossover cable is enough. No need for a 10 GBit switch. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ESX to ZFS

2010-11-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
). I have a problem that people want to have scalable in ~30 TByte increments solution, and I'd rather avoid adding SAS expander boxes but add identical boxes in a cluster, and not just as invididual NFS mounts. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP ProLiant N36L

2010-11-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance issues with iSCSI under Linux

2010-10-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 02:10:49PM -0700, zfs user wrote: 1 Mangy-Cours CPU ^ Dunno whether deliberate, or malapropism, but I love it. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
close to its competitors. Yeah, no more Sun hardware for us, either. Mostly Supermicro, Dell, HP. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP ProLiant N36L

2010-10-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
as well. Somebody has already bought this microserver? :) Not yet, though I'm thinking about putting those new 4x 3 TByte SATA disks into it. Resilver times in raidz3 will be a nightmare, though. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

[zfs-discuss] Jeff Bonwick leaves Sun/Oracle

2010-09-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
of decades. To everyone who taught me, worked with me, learned from me, and supported my efforts in countless ways large and small: Thank you. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820

[zfs-discuss] HP ProLiant N36L

2010-09-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
Anyone had any look getting either OpenSolaris or FreeBSD with zfs working on http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/sm/WF06b/15351-15351-4237916-4237917-4237917-4248009-4248034.html ? The Neo has a lot more oomph than the Atoms, and the box can handle up to 8 GByte ECC memory. -- Eugen

[zfs-discuss] CPU requirements for zfs performance

2010-07-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
How badly would a dual-core 1.6 GHz Atom with 4 GBytes RAM be underpowered for serving 4-6 SATA drives? What kind of transfer speed (GBit Ethernet, Intel NICs) can I expect with raidz2 or raidz3? Thanks. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] CPU requirements for zfs performance

2010-07-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
do you expect? Thanks for the thumbs-up. Just local GBit LAN. If it does ~20-40 MByte/s it should be quite enough. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
, but it's also more expensive. Not in my neck of the woods, Sun have always been most competitive. You find Sun to be a better deal than Supermicro? Especially, when you're sticking a very large number of disks into it, and can't source the diskless caddies elsewhere? -- Eugen* Leitl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
series of anecdotes I've done quite well ditching Dells and Suns and HPs for Supermicro, and sourcing disks (and sometimes memory) from the likes of TechData and IngramMicro. No doubt, others have very different stories to tell. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2010-06-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
of a sample size of maybe 20. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

[zfs-discuss] Review: SuperMicro’s SC847 (S C847A) 4U chassis with 36 drive bays

2010-05-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.natecarlson.com/2010/05/07/review-supermicros-sc847a-4u-chassis-with-36-drive-bays/ Review: SuperMicro’s SC847 (SC847A) 4U chassis with 36 drive bays May 7, 2010 · 9 comments in Geek Stuff, Linux, Storage, Virtualization, Work Stuff SuperMicro SC847 Thumbnail [Or my quest for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
quite leery. Maybe the SAS Seagates are better. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29

Re: [zfs-discuss] Oracle to no longer support ZFS on OpenSolaris?

2010-04-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
of proof is quite onerous, and quite in their court. Words are not nearly enough. It seems the technology is finished, unless a credible fork is forthcoming. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD sale on newegg

2010-04-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

[zfs-discuss] FYI: Ben Rockwood: Solaris no longer free

2010-03-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
recommend you to test both systems. Maybe you will find some comparative benchmarks in Phoronix, but those don’t guarantee your application will work better on one or the other. Hope that helps. Phobos (Email) - 29 March '10 - 13:12 -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
am I a developer), such crucial features are nontrivial to backport because FreeBSD doesn't practice layer separation. Inasmuch this is still true for the future we'll see once the Oracle/Sun dust settles. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] suggested ssd for zil

2010-03-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
of the PCI solutions that have either battery backup or external power. But this seems like a good solution if someone has the space. It doesn't do ECC memory though, which is a real pity. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] snv_133 - high cpu

2010-02-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
? How much disks (assuming 100 MByte/s throughput for each) would be considered pushing it for a current single-socket quadcore? Are compression, sha256 checksums, or deduplication enabled for the filesystem you are using? -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

[zfs-discuss] future of OpenSolaris

2010-02-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
case scenario, what would be the best candidate for a fork? Nexenta? Debian already included FreeBSD as a kernel flavor into its fold, it seems Nexenta could be also a good candidate. Maybe anyone in the know could provide a short blurb on what the state is, and what the options are. -- Eugen

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor ZIL SLC SSD performance

2010-02-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
priced (~230 EUR) and stacked with 4GB or 8GB DDR2-ECC should be more than sufficient. Wouldn't it be better investing these 300-350 EUR into 16 GByte or more of system memory, and a cheap UPS? http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/hardware.htm -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Abysmal ISCSI / ZFS Performance

2010-02-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
?Item=N82E16835203002 -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
to be able to use one for a hybrid zfs iSCSI target for VMWare, probably with 10 GBit Ethernet. There's no way I would use something like this for most installs, but there is definitely some use. Now that opensolaris supports sata pmp, you could use a similar chassis for a zfs pool. -- Eugen

[zfs-discuss] FreeNAS 0.7 zfs performance

2009-11-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
FreeBSD 8.0 which is just out and claims zfs ready for production will do better. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA

[zfs-discuss] FreeNAS 0.7 with zfs out

2009-11-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
because Quixplorer does not respect system user permissions (BR 2798934). * Disk temperature not detected correct for SCSI devices (BR 2801565). * Fix JPCERT/CC JVN#89791790 (Cross-site scripting vulnerability). -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs code and fishworks fork

2009-10-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 01:40:12PM +0800, C. Bergström wrote: So use Nexenta? Got data you care about? Verify extensively before you jump to that ship.. :) So you're saying Nexenta have been known to drop bits on the floor, unprovoked? Inquiring minds... -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs code and fishworks fork

2009-10-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
scaling up its FreeNAS 0.7 final with zfs will be out Any Day Now. It may lag behind OpenSolaris, but it is usable. support for embedded platforms (MIPS, ARM, PowerPC) recently. Not sure of the porting progress of OpenSolaris off-hand. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Stupid to have 2 disk raidz?

2009-10-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
keeping the pool active. At this point, the only way I can get it to work is to offline (ie export) the whole pool, and then pray that nothing interrupts the expansion process. Anyone knows how Drobo does it? -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on home OpenSolaris/ZFS server

2009-10-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
big tower, and is now dwelling in a cheap Sharkoon case. The fan is a bit noisy, but then, the server is behind a couple of doors, and serves the house LAN. It's currently running Linux, but has already a FreeNAS on an IDE DOM preinstalled. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http

[zfs-discuss] poor man's Drobo on FreeNAS

2009-09-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
Somewhat hairy, but interesting. FYI. https://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/freenas/viewtopic.php?f=97t=1902 -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on home OpenSolaris/ZFS server

2009-09-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on home OpenSolaris/ZFS server

2009-09-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
to deal with that is watercooling, or operating the thing out of your earshot (cellar, etc). There are large enclosures with large, slow-moving fans which are suitable for the living room, but I doubt you can miss 16-24 drives in action. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Collecting hardware configurations (was Re: White box server for OpenSolaris)

2009-09-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
configuration to use. Any takers? I'm willing to contribute (zfs on Opensolaris, mostly Supermicro boxes and FreeNAS (FreeBSD 7.2, next 8.x probably)). Is there a wiki for that somewhere? -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ versus mirrroed

2009-09-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
raidz3 into the number crunch? Thanks! -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ versus mirrroed

2009-09-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
layout examples for odd number of disks (understandable, since Sun has to sell the Thumper), and is pretty mum on raidz3. Thank you. This list is fun, and helpful. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM

Re: [zfs-discuss] alternative hardware configurations for zfs

2009-09-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
/X8DAi.cfm in above box. anything that's been out for a while should work fine. I presume you're going for an Intel Xeon solution-- the peripherals on those boards a a bit better supported than the AMD stuff, but even the AMD boards work well. Yes, dual-socket quadcore Xeon. -- Eugen* Leitl

[zfs-discuss] question about my hardware choice

2009-09-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
you suggest? Thanks. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE