[zfs-discuss] Ditto blocks on RAID-Z pool.

2009-07-02 Thread Louis-Frédéric Feuillette
Hello all, If you have copies=2 on a large enough raid-z(2) pool and 2(3) disks die, is it possible to recover that information despite the offline state of the pool? I don't have this happening to me, it's just a theoretical question. So, if you can't recover the data, is there any advantage to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ditto blocks on RAID-Z pool.

2009-07-02 Thread Richard Elling
Louis-Frédéric Feuillette wrote: Hello all, If you have copies=2 on a large enough raid-z(2) pool and 2(3) disks die, is it possible to recover that information despite the offline state of the pool? I don't have this happening to me, it's just a theoretical question. So, if you can't recover

[zfs-discuss] Ditto blocks in S10U4 ?

2008-01-22 Thread przemolicc
bash-3.00# cat /etc/release Solaris 10 8/07 s10x_u4wos_12b X86 Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 16 August 2007 (with all the latest patches)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ditto blocks in S10U4 ?

2008-01-22 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 22 January, 2008 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent me these 1,6K bytes: bash-3.00# cat /etc/release Solaris 10 8/07 s10x_u4wos_12b X86 Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ditto blocks

2007-05-24 Thread Henk Langeveld
Richard Elling wrote: It all depends on the configuration. For a single disk system, copies should generally be faster than mirroring. For multiple disks, the performance should be similar as copies are spread out over different disks. Here's a crazy idea: could we use zfs on dvd for s/w

Re: [zfs-discuss] ditto blocks

2007-05-24 Thread Toby Thain
On 24-May-07, at 6:26 AM, Henk Langeveld wrote: Richard Elling wrote: It all depends on the configuration. For a single disk system, copies should generally be faster than mirroring. For multiple disks, the performance should be similar as copies are spread out over different disks.

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ditto blocks for use data integrated in b61

2007-03-21 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Richard, Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 1:48:23 AM, you wrote: RE Yes, PSARC 2007/121 integrated into build 61 (and there was much rejoicing :-) RE I'm working on some models which will show the affect on various RAID RE configurations and intend to post some results soon. Suffice to say, if

Re: [zfs-discuss] ditto blocks for use data integrated in b61

2007-03-21 Thread Richard Elling
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Richard, Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 1:48:23 AM, you wrote: RE Yes, PSARC 2007/121 integrated into build 61 (and there was much rejoicing :-) RE I'm working on some models which will show the affect on various RAID RE configurations and intend to post some results

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ditto blocks for use data integrated in b61

2007-03-21 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Richard, Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 6:23:05 PM, you wrote: RE Robert Milkowski wrote: RE Wouldn't that fall under the generic rewrite/shrink functionality we're also RE anxiously waiting for? Note that this also brings up a nasty edge case where RE the rewrite may cause you to run out

[zfs-discuss] ditto blocks for use data integrated in b61

2007-03-20 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello zfs-discuss, http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6459491 I guess some people here will be happy :) ps. now think about all these questions: what do you think about HW RAID5 LUNs with raidz2 on top of this with ditto block set to 3? Or maybe 2 would be

Re: [zfs-discuss] ditto blocks for use data integrated in b61

2007-03-20 Thread Richard Elling
Yes, PSARC 2007/121 integrated into build 61 (and there was much rejoicing :-) I'm working on some models which will show the affect on various RAID configurations and intend to post some results soon. Suffice to say, if you have a stripe with 1 disk, you might be able to survive loss of a