Re: [zfs-discuss] reliable, enterprise worthy JBODs?

2011-01-26 Thread Lasse Osterild
On 25/01/2011, at 22.39, Ian Collins wrote: On 01/26/11 09:50 AM, Lasse Osterild wrote: I'd go with some Dell MD1200's, for us they ended up being cheaper (incl disks) than a SuperMicro case with the same model disks, and it's way nicer than the low-quality SuperMicro stuff. That's

Re: [zfs-discuss] reliable, enterprise worthy JBODs?

2011-01-25 Thread Lasse Osterild
On 25/01/2011, at 19.04, Philip Brown wrote: So, another hardware question :) ZFS has been touted as taking maximal advantage of disk hardware, to the point where it can be used efficiently and cost-effectively on JBODs, rather than having to throw more expensive RAID arrays at it.

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

2010-12-22 Thread Lasse Osterild
I've just noticed that Dell has a 6.0.1 firmware upgrade available, at least for my R610's they do (they are about 3 months old). Oddly enough it doesn't show up on support.dell.com when I search using my servicecode, but if I check through System Services / Lifecycle Controller it does find

Re: [zfs-discuss] PowerEdge R510 with PERC H200/H700 with ZFS

2010-08-08 Thread Lasse Osterild
On 08/08/2010, at 07.23, valrh...@gmail.com wrote: 2. I'd also recommend avoiding the PERC cards, in particular since it makes drives attached to it impossible to transport to another system. Instead, I use the SAS 6i/R controller. That's built into the motherboard on the PW T7500, and I

Re: [zfs-discuss] BP rewrite? (Was Re: spreading data after adding devices to pool)

2010-07-09 Thread Lasse Osterild
+1 I badly need this. On 09/07/2010, at 19.40, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Anyone knows where in the pipeline BP rewrite is, or how long this pipeline is? You could move the data elsewhere using zfs send and recv, destroy the original datasets and then recreate them. This would stripe

[zfs-discuss] Virident tachIOn SSD for ZIL ?

2010-06-16 Thread Lasse Osterild
Hi, Have any of you looked at SSD's from Virident ? http://virident.com/products.php Looks pretty impressive to me, though I am sure the price is as well. - Lasse ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] zpool list size

2010-02-08 Thread Lasse Osterild
Hi, This may well have been covered before but I've not been able to find an answer to this particular question. I've setup a raidz2 test env using files like this: # mkfile 1g t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 t6 t7 t8 t9 t10 s1 s2 # zpool create dataPool raidz2 /xvm/t1 /xvm/t2 /xvm/t3 /xvm/t4 /xvm/t5 #

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool list size

2010-02-08 Thread Lasse Osterild
On 08/02/2010, at 22.50, Richard Elling wrote: r...@vmstor01:/# zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREECAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT dataPool 9.94G 4.89G 5.04G49% 1.00x ONLINE - Now here's what I don't get, why does it say the poo sizel is 9.94G when it's made up of 2 x

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool list size

2010-02-08 Thread Lasse Osterild
On 09/02/2010, at 00.23, Daniel Carosone wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 11:28:11PM +0100, Lasse Osterild wrote: Ok thanks I know that the amount of used space will vary, but what's the usefulness of the total size when ie in my pool above 4 x 1G (roughly, depending on recordsize

[zfs-discuss] S10U8 msg/ZFS-8000-9P

2009-10-29 Thread Lasse Osterild
Hi, Seems either Solaris or SunSolve is in need of an update. pool: dataPool state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. action: Determine if the device needs to be