Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance with Sun StorageTek 2540

2008-02-18 Thread Joel Miller
It is the same for the 2530, and I am fairly certain it is also valid for the 6130,6140, 6540. -Joel On Feb 18, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Robert Milkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Joel, Saturday, February 16, 2008, 4:09:11 PM, you wrote: JM Bob, JM Here is how you can tell the array to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance with Sun StorageTek 2540

2008-02-15 Thread Joel Miller
The segment size is amount of contiguous space that each drive contributes to a single stripe. So if you have a 5 drive RAID-5 set @ 128k segment size, a single stripe = (5-1)*128k = 512k BTW, Did you tweak the cache sync handling on the array? -Joel This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hardware RAID vs. ZFS RAID

2008-02-07 Thread Joel Miller
Much of the complexity in hardware RAID is in the fault detection, isolation, and management. The fun part is trying to architect a fault-tolerant system when the suppliers of the components can not come close to enumerating most of the possible failure modes. What happens when a drive's

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS+NFS on storedge 6120 (sun t4)

2007-10-17 Thread Joel Miller
Ok...got a break from the 25xx release... Trying to catch up so...sorry for the late response... The 6120 firmware does not support the Cache Sync command at all... You could try using a smaller blocksize setting on the array to attempt to reduce the number of read/modify/writes that you will

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and 2530 jbod

2007-07-18 Thread Joel Miller
Hi Robert, It should work. We have not had the time or resources to test it (we are busy qualifying the 2530 (SAS array) with an upcoming MPxIO enabled MPT driver and SATA drive support). I do not know if MPxIO will claim raw drives or nottypically there are vendor specific modules that

[zfs-discuss] Re: zfs and 2530 jbod

2007-06-26 Thread Joel Miller
Hi folks, So the expansion unit for the 2500 series is the 2501. The back-end drive channels are SAS. Currently it is not supported to connect a 2501 directly to a SAS HBA. SATA drives are in the pipe, but will not be released until the RAID firmware for the 2500 series officially supports the

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS+NFS on storedge 6120 (sun t4)

2007-06-26 Thread Joel Miller
I am pretty sure the T3/6120/6320 firmware does not support the SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE commands.. Off the top of my head, I do not know if that triggers any change in behavior on the Solaris side... The firmware does support the use of the FUA bit...which would potentially lead to similar flushing