Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] a question of oi OS on ssd

2014-07-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry wrote: And in that case it would be virtual drives being created on SSD hardware. Will that setup be likely to be more problematic than a non-virtual install of oi on that hardware? Bryan N Iotti ironsides.med...@runbox.com writes: At that point, OI doesn't see the real disks, so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] a question of oi OS on ssd

2014-07-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Brogyányi József bro...@gmail.com writes: I do not recommend to use it. My experiences are same what I read this site: http://breden.org.uk/2009/09/02/home-fileserver-handling-pool-errors/ The SSD produced an error under only one week. I do not wan to use daily scrub and clear the zpool

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] a question of oi OS on ssd

2014-07-10 Thread Bryan N Iotti
At that point your data integrity is only as good as the filesystem on the host OS  (NTFS) , where your OI ZFS drives are stored as files. ZFS can't protect you from much there, even though this can be improved a little if you put each virtual drive on a different disk on the host. That's why

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] a question of oi OS on ssd

2014-07-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry wrote: I'm not sure I get your meaning there... why would I not be able to benefit from zfs? Bryan N Iotti ironsides.med...@runbox.com responded: At that point your data integrity is only as good as the filesystem on the host OS  (NTFS) , where your OI ZFS drives are stored as files.

[OpenIndiana-discuss] a question of oi OS on ssd

2014-07-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Just checking if I will be able to install oi 151_9 on a pair of SSD mirrored? I know the routine to establish a mirrored rpool.. just checking that there aren't some major problems if the drives are SSD. ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] a question of oi OS on ssd

2014-07-08 Thread Jason Matthews
No problems. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 8, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Just checking if I will be able to install oi 151_9 on a pair of SSD mirrored? I know the routine to establish a mirrored rpool.. just checking that there aren't some major problems if

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] a question of oi OS on ssd

2014-07-08 Thread Bryan N Iotti
For best performance and longer life remember to edit sd.conf with the proper tags for your disks, in order to use 4K / 8K blocks. That's about all I can think of that needs doing.      Bryan Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.   Original Message   From: Harry Putnam Sent: Tuesday, July 8,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] a question of oi OS on ssd

2014-07-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Bryan N Iotti ironsides.med...@runbox.com writes: Jason M. First, thank you both for the great input. For best performance and longer life remember to edit sd.conf with the proper tags for your disks, in order to use 4K / 8K blocks. One other aspect that has occurred to me after seeing the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] a question of oi OS on ssd

2014-07-08 Thread Bryan N Iotti
At that point, OI doesn't see the real disks, so no configuration and no possible issues (other than unforeseen surprises in the VBox guest additions). Still, why OI if you can't benefit from ZFS? Bryan Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.   Original Message   From: Harry Putnam Sent:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] a question of oi OS on ssd

2014-07-08 Thread Brogyányi József
I do not recommend to use it. My experiences are same what I read this site: http://breden.org.uk/2009/09/02/home-fileserver-handling-pool-errors/ The SSD produced an error under only one week. I do not wan to use daily scrub and clear the zpool error. My SSD was Samsung SSD 830 not OCZ. First