Re: [zfs-discuss] (preview) Whitepaper - ZFS Pools Explained - feedback welcome

2010-08-26 Thread Marty Scholes
This paper is exactly what is needed -- giving an overview to a wide audience of the ZFS fundamental components and benefits. I found several grammar errors -- to be expected in a draft and I think at least one technical error. The paper seems to imply that multiple vdevs will induce striping

Re: [zfs-discuss] (preview) Whitepaper - ZFS Pools Explained - feedback welcome

2010-08-26 Thread StorageConcepts
This paper is exactly what is needed -- giving an overview to a wide audience of the ZFS fundamental components and benefits. Thanks :) I found several grammar errors -- to be expected in a draft and I think at least one technical error. Will be fixed :) The paper seems to imply that

Re: [zfs-discuss] (preview) Whitepaper - ZFS Pools Explained - feedback welcome

2010-08-26 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:57 PM, StorageConcepts presa...@storageconcepts.de wrote: Thanks for the feedback, the idea of it is to give people new to ZFS a understanding of the terms and mode of operations to avoid common problems (wide stripe pools etc.). Also agreed that it is a little

[zfs-discuss] (preview) Whitepaper - ZFS Pools Explained - feedback welcome

2010-08-25 Thread StorageConcepts
Hello list, while following this list for more then 1 year, I feel that this list was a great way to get insights into ZFS. Thank you all for contributing. Over the last month's I was writing a little whitepaper trying to consolidate the knowledge collected here. It has now reached a beta

Re: [zfs-discuss] (preview) Whitepaper - ZFS Pools Explained - feedback welcome

2010-08-25 Thread F. Wessels
Although it's bit much Nexenta oriented, command wise. It's a nice introduction. I did found one thing, page 28 about the zil. There's no zil device, the zil can be written to an optional slog device. And the last line first paragraph, If you can, use memory based SSD devices. At least change

Re: [zfs-discuss] (preview) Whitepaper - ZFS Pools Explained - feedback welcome

2010-08-25 Thread LaoTsao 老曹
dtrace is DTrace On 8/25/2010 3:27 PM, F. Wessels wrote: Although it's bit much Nexenta oriented, command wise. It's a nice introduction. I did found one thing, page 28 about the zil. There's no zil device, the zil can be written to an optional slog device. And the last line first paragraph,

Re: [zfs-discuss] (preview) Whitepaper - ZFS Pools Explained - feedback welcome

2010-08-25 Thread StorageConcepts
Thanks for the feedback, the idea of it is to give people new to ZFS a understanding of the terms and mode of operations to avoid common problems (wide stripe pools etc.). Also agreed that it is a little NexentaStor tweaked :) I think I have to rework the zil section anyhow because of