Nathan Kroenert wrote: > For what it's worth, I started playing with USB + flash + ZFS and was > most unhappy for quite a while. > > I was suffering with things hanging, going slow or just going away and > breaking, and thought I was witnessing something zfs was doing as I was > trying to do mirror recovery and all that sort of stuff. > > On a hunch, I tried doing UFS and RAW instead and saw the same issues. > > It's starting to look like my USB hubs. Once they are under any > reasonable read/write load, they just make bunches of things go offline. > > Yep - They are powered and plugged in. > > So, at this stage, I'll be grabbing a couple of 'better' USB hubs (Mine > are pretty much the cheapest I could buy) and see how that goes. > > For gags, take ZFS out of the equation and validate that your hardware > is actually providing a stable platform for ZFS... Mine wasn't...
That's my experience too. USB HUBs are cheap shit mostly... _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
