Re: [zfs-discuss] Cores vs. Speed?

2010-02-07 Thread Erik Trimble
with Unbuffered RAM and still keep everything stable. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cores vs. Speed?

2010-02-06 Thread Erik Trimble
into the older AMD Barcelona-based Opterons. They're equivalent to the Phenom, plus their motherboards come with just stupid numbers of DIMM slots. :-) -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cores vs. Speed?

2010-02-04 Thread Erik Trimble
comes down to amount of L3 cache, and HT speed. I'd be interested in doing some benchmarking to see exactly how the variations make a difference. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS configuration suggestion with 24 drives

2010-01-29 Thread Erik Trimble
hosts from using different component links. e.g. you could have an HTTP and FTP connection each use different links, even though both have the same two machines involved. But, someone, please correct me on this if I'm wrong. And, we're getting pretty far off topic here... -- Erik Trimble Java

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs streams

2010-01-24 Thread Erik Trimble
. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-24 Thread Erik Trimble
://supermicro.com/products/accessories/mobilerack/CSE-M28E2.cf I'm aware of the Supermicro chassis, and, while they're nice, I'm after an external JBOD chassis, not a server chassis. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-23 Thread Erik Trimble
really be helpful. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is ZFS internal reservation excessive?

2010-01-18 Thread Erik Trimble
would need more than a GB or two as reserve space... -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is ZFS internal reservation excessive?

2010-01-18 Thread Erik Trimble
Richard Elling wrote: On Jan 18, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: Given my (imperfect) understanding of the internals of ZFS, the non-ZIL portions of the reserved space are there mostly to insure that there is sufficient (reasonably) contiguous space for doing COW. Hopefully, once BP

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is ZFS internal reservation excessive?

2010-01-18 Thread Erik Trimble
Daniel Carosone wrote: On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 03:25:56PM -0800, Erik Trimble wrote: Hopefully, once BP rewrite materializes (I know, I'm treating this much to much as a Holy Grail, here to save us from all the ZFS limitations, but really...), we can implement defragmentation which

Re: [zfs-discuss] NearLine SAS?

2010-01-18 Thread Erik Trimble
Tim Cook wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Erik Trimble erik.trim...@sun.com mailto:erik.trim...@sun.com wrote: A poster in another forum mentioned that Seagate (and Hitachi, amongst others) is now selling something labeled as NearLine SAS storage (e.g. Seagate's NL35

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thin device support in ZFS?

2010-01-05 Thread Erik Trimble
in implementation appears to occur sometime shortly after the introduction of the Indilinx controllers. My fault for not catching this. -Erik Eric D. Mudama wrote: On Sat, Jan 2 at 22:24, Erik Trimble wrote: In MLC-style SSDs, you typically have a block size of 2k or 4k. However, you have a Page

Re: [zfs-discuss] preview of new SSD based on SandForce controller

2010-01-05 Thread Erik Trimble
the single Fusion-IO card eat about 1/4 the CPU power that a 8Gbit Fibre Channel card HBA does, and roughly the same as a 10Gbit Ethernet card. So, it's not out of line with comparable throughput add-in cards. It does need significantly more CPU than a SAS or SCSI controller, though. -- Erik

Re: [zfs-discuss] preview of new SSD based on SandForce controller

2010-01-02 Thread Erik Trimble
Eric D. Mudama wrote: On Fri, Jan 1 at 21:21, Erik Trimble wrote: That all said, it certainly would be really nice to get a SSD controller which can really push the bandwidth, and the only way I see this happening now is to go the stupid route, and dumb down the controller as much

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thin device support in ZFS?

2010-01-02 Thread Erik Trimble
sections, though. Which would be interesting: ZFS would write in Page Size increments, and read in Block Size amounts. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thin device support in ZFS?

2010-01-02 Thread Erik Trimble
Joerg Schilling wrote: Erik Trimble erik.trim...@sun.com wrote: From ZFS's standpoint, the optimal configuration would be for the SSD to inform ZFS as to it's PAGE size, and ZFS would use this as the fundamental BLOCK size for that device (i.e. all writes are in integer It seems

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thin device support in ZFS?

2010-01-02 Thread Erik Trimble
Ragnar Sundblad wrote: On 2 jan 2010, at 13.10, Erik Trimble wrote Joerg Schilling wrote: the TRIM command is what is intended for an OS to notify the SSD as to which blocks are deleted/erased, so the SSD's internal free list can be updated (that is, it allows formerly-in-use blocks

Re: [zfs-discuss] preview of new SSD based on SandForce controller

2010-01-02 Thread Erik Trimble
filesystem (didn't make it into Windows 2008, but maybe Win2011), so we'll have to see what that entails. All that said, it would certainly be limited to Enterprise SSD, which, are low-volume. But, on the up side, they're High Margin, so maybe we can hope... -- Erik Trimble Java System

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thin device support in ZFS?

2010-01-02 Thread Erik Trimble
Ragnar Sundblad wrote: On 2 jan 2010, at 22.49, Erik Trimble wrote: Ragnar Sundblad wrote: On 2 jan 2010, at 13.10, Erik Trimble wrote Joerg Schilling wrote: the TRIM command is what is intended for an OS to notify the SSD as to which blocks are deleted/erased, so

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thin device support in ZFS?

2010-01-02 Thread Erik Trimble
David Magda wrote: On Jan 2, 2010, at 16:49, Erik Trimble wrote: My argument is that the OS has a far better view of the whole data picture, and access to much higher performing caches (i.e. RAM/registers) than the SSD, so not only can the OS make far better decisions about the data and how

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thin device support in ZFS?

2010-01-02 Thread Erik Trimble
Ragnar Sundblad wrote: On 3 jan 2010, at 04.19, Erik Trimble wrote: Let's say I have 4k blocks, grouped into a 128k page. That is, the SSD's fundamental minimum unit size is 4k, but the minimum WRITE size is 128k. Thus, 32 blocks in a page. Do you know of SSD disks that have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thin device support in ZFS?

2010-01-02 Thread Erik Trimble
Erik Trimble wrote: Ragnar Sundblad wrote: Yes, there is something to worry about, as you can only erase flash in large pages - you can not erase them only where the free data blocks in the Free List are. I'm not sure that SSDs actually _have_ to erase - they just overwrite anything

Re: [zfs-discuss] preview of new SSD based on SandForce controller

2010-01-01 Thread Erik Trimble
filesystem makers worry about scheduling writes appropriately, doing redundancy, etc. Oooh! Oooh! a whole cluster of USB thumb drives! Yeah!wink -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] preview of new SSD based on SandForce controller

2010-01-01 Thread Erik Trimble
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Erik Trimble wrote: Maybe it's approaching time for vendors to just produce really stupid SSDs: that is, ones that just do wear-leveling, and expose their true page-size info (e.g. for MLC, how many blocks of X size have to be written at once

Re: [zfs-discuss] best way to configure raidz groups

2009-12-31 Thread Erik Trimble
to L2ARC. I would disable any swap volume on the SSDs, however. If you need swap, put it somewhere else. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] repost - high read iops

2009-12-29 Thread Erik Trimble
. In short, Checksumming is how ZFS /determines/ data corruption, and Redundancy is how ZFS /fixes/ it. Checksumming is /always/ present, while redundancy depends on the pool layout and options (cf. copies property). -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa

Re: [zfs-discuss] Benchmarks results for ZFS + NFS, using SSD's as slog devices (ZIL)

2009-12-26 Thread Erik Trimble
Richard Elling wrote: On Dec 25, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: I haven't seen this mentioned before, but the OCZ Vertex Turbo is still an MLC-based SSD, and is /substantially/ inferior to an Intel X25-E in terms of random write performance, which is what a ZIL device does almost

Re: [zfs-discuss] Benchmarks results for ZFS + NFS, using SSD's as slog devices (ZIL)

2009-12-25 Thread Erik Trimble
in the case of NFS traffic. In fact, I think that the Vertex's sustained random write IOPs performance is actually inferior to a 15k SAS drive. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting decent NFS performance

2009-12-23 Thread Erik Trimble
as a mirrored ZIL into the zpool. It's a (relatively) simple and ingenious suggestion. -Erik On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Erik Trimble erik.trim...@sun.com wrote: Charles Hedrick wrote: Is ISCSI reliable enough for this? YES. The original idea is a good one, and one

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting decent NFS performance

2009-12-22 Thread Erik Trimble
. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting decent NFS performance

2009-12-22 Thread Erik Trimble
in a straight-through cable between the two machine is the best idea here, rather than going through a switch. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I determine dedupe effectiveness?

2009-12-21 Thread Erik Trimble
are made after a snapshot. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD strange performance problem, resilvering helps during operation

2009-12-21 Thread Erik Trimble
on the SSD than reads are. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD strange performance problem, resilvering helps during operation

2009-12-21 Thread Erik Trimble
for that level of IOPS to wear out the SSDs (which, are likely OEM Intel X25-E). Something else is wrong. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2009-12-10 Thread Erik Trimble
, if your drive really is taking 10-15 seconds to remap bad sectors, maybe you _should_ replace it. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Planed ZFS-Features - Is there a List or something else

2009-12-09 Thread Erik Trimble
the pool, remove the device, remake the pool, then reimport the pool) to even bother with? -- BP rewrite is key to several oft-asked features: vdev removal, defrag, raidz expansion, among others. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US

Re: [zfs-discuss] freeNAS moves to Linux from FreeBSD

2009-12-07 Thread Erik Trimble
with it for the time being. The differences for something like FreeNAS are relatively minor, and it's better to Go With What You Know. Exploring OpenSolaris for a future migration would be good, but for right now, I'd stick to FreeBSD. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone

Re: [zfs-discuss] L2ARC in clusters

2009-12-03 Thread Erik Trimble
hosts, and it auto-picks the correct c1t1d0 drive. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] SSDs with a SCSI SCA interface?

2009-12-03 Thread Erik Trimble
) -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] X45xx storage vs 7xxx Unified storage

2009-11-25 Thread Erik Trimble
Miles Nordin wrote: et == Erik Trimble erik.trim...@sun.com writes: et I'd still get the 7310 hardware. et Worst case scenario is that you can blow away the AmberRoad okay but, AIUI he was saying pricing is 6% more for half as much physical disk. This is also why

Re: [zfs-discuss] X45xx storage vs 7xxx Unified storage

2009-11-24 Thread Erik Trimble
is that you can blow away the AmberRoad software load, and install OpenSolaris/Solaris. The hardware is a standard X4140 and J4200. Note, that if you do that, well, you can't re-load A-R without a support contract. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara

Re: [zfs-discuss] X45xx storage vs 7xxx Unified storage

2009-11-24 Thread Erik Trimble
Erik Trimble wrote: Miles Nordin wrote: lz == Len Zaifman leona...@sickkids.ca writes: lz So I now have 2 disk paths and two network paths as opposed to lz only one in the 7310 cluster. confused You're configuring all your failover on the client, so the HA stuff

Re: [zfs-discuss] X45xx storage vs 7xxx Unified storage

2009-11-23 Thread Erik Trimble
formance Systems The Centre for Computational Biology The Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Ave. Toronto, Ont M5G 1X8 tel: 416-813-5513 email: leona...@sickkids.ca -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa

[zfs-discuss] Using local disk for cache on an iSCSI zvol...

2009-11-20 Thread Erik Trimble
it boils down to is what is the access time/throughput of a single local 15k SCSI drive vs a GigE iSCSI volume? -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI target zfs to SATA zfs

2009-11-20 Thread Erik Trimble
be no gotchas on the zpool import (of course, remember to zpool export from the original machines first as a good practice). -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI target zfs to SATA zfs

2009-11-20 Thread Erik Trimble
the 'shareiscsi' property BEFORE you export them (or, after you import them, then reboot). This prevents a potential conflict between the old iSCSI implementation and COMSTAR. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data balance across vdevs

2009-11-20 Thread Erik Trimble
here for a Readzilla. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data balance across vdevs

2009-11-20 Thread Erik Trimble
:-) -- richard oooh, then I must be ecstatically happy! -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] X45xx storage vs 7xxx Unified storage

2009-11-18 Thread Erik Trimble
sold in. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best config for different sized disks

2009-11-17 Thread Erik Trimble
c1t0d0s1 c1t1d0s1 c1t2d0s1 -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send from solaris 10/08 to zfs receive on solaris 10/09

2009-11-12 Thread Erik Trimble
in creating a new v10 filesystem on the 10u8 machine. However, you can't send a v12 filesystem from the 10u8 machine to the 10u6 machine. If you explicitly create a v10 filesystem on the 10u8 machine, you can send that filesystem to the 10u6 machine. I hope that's clear. -- Erik Trimble Java

Re: [zfs-discuss] Stupid to have 2 disk raidz?

2009-10-16 Thread Erik Trimble
primary problem is that I have to keep both schemes in memory during the migration, and if something should happen (i.e. reboot, panic, etc) then I lose the current state of the zpool, and everything goes to hell in a handbasket. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone

Re: [zfs-discuss] Stupid to have 2 disk raidz?

2009-10-15 Thread Erik Trimble
is to offline (ie export) the whole pool, and then pray that nothing interrupts the expansion process. That all said, I'm not a /real/ developer, so maybe someone else has some free time to try. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does ZFS work with SAN-attached devices?

2009-10-10 Thread Erik Trimble
to complete the relevant transaction to the calling software. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does ZFS work with SAN-attached devices?

2009-10-10 Thread Erik Trimble
Victor Latushkin wrote: Erik Trimble wrote: ZFS no longer has the issue where loss of a single device (even intermittently) causes pool corruption. That's been fixed. Erik, it does not help at all when you are talking about some issue being fixed and does not provide corresponding CR number

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does ZFS work with SAN-attached devices?

2009-10-09 Thread Erik Trimble
the preferred method of arranging things in ZFS, even with hardware raid backing the underlying LUN (whether the LUN is from a SAN or local HBA doesn't matter). -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can't rm file when No space left on device...

2009-10-02 Thread Erik Trimble
clone' function is for. clone your snapshot, promote it, and make your modifications. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hot Space vs. hot spares

2009-09-30 Thread Erik Trimble
, not a single vdev. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Would ZFS work for a high-bandwidth video SAN?

2009-09-28 Thread Erik Trimble
for Sun kit, but I'd be very wary of using any no-service-contract hardware for something that is business critical, which I can't imagine your digital editing system isn't. Don't be penny-wise and pound-foolish. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA

Re: [zfs-discuss] White box server for OpenSolaris

2009-09-25 Thread Erik Trimble
. (I'd probably go with Socket AM3, with ECC, of course) I'd sell them in both fully loaded with the Amber Road software (and mandatory Service Contract), and no-OS Loaded, no-Service Contract appliance versions. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cloning Systems using zpool

2009-09-24 Thread Erik Trimble
the original boot environment. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS HW RAID

2009-09-19 Thread Erik Trimble
/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA

Re: [zfs-discuss] If you have ZFS in production, willing to share some details (with me)?

2009-09-19 Thread Erik Trimble
in advance!! Steffen -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ versus mirrroed

2009-09-17 Thread Erik Trimble
better. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ versus mirrroed

2009-09-17 Thread Erik Trimble
Darren J Moffat wrote: Erik Trimble wrote: So SSDs for ZIL/L2ARC don't bring that much when used with raidz2/raidz3, if I write a lot, at least, and don't access the cache very much, according to some recent posts on this list. Not true. Remember: ZIL = write cache ZIL is NOT a write

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send older version?

2009-09-16 Thread Erik Trimble
Carson Gaspar wrote: Erik Trimble wrote: I haven't see this specific problem, but it occurs to me thus: For the reverse of the original problem, where (say) I back up a 'zfs send' stream to tape, then later on, after upgrading my system, I want to get that stream back. Does 'zfs receive

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send older version?

2009-09-16 Thread Erik Trimble
', and modifying 'zfs send' to be able to specify a zfs filesystem version during stream creation. As per Lori's original RFE CR. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send older version?

2009-09-15 Thread Erik Trimble
? If not, frankly, that's a higher priority than the reverse. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can ZFS dynamically grow pool sizes? (re: Windows Home Server)

2009-08-12 Thread Erik Trimble
best with groups of identical disks, and can be expanded by adding groups of identical disks (not necessarily of the same size as the originals). Once again, please read the archives for more information about expanding zpools. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can ZFS dynamically grow pool sizes? (re: Windows Home Server)

2009-08-12 Thread Erik Trimble
Eric D. Mudama wrote: On Wed, Aug 12 at 12:11, Erik Trimble wrote: Anyways, if I have a bunch of different size disks (1.5 TB, 1.0 TB, 500 GB, etc), can I put them all into one big array and have data redundancy, etc? (RAID-Z?) Yes. RAID-Z requires a minimum of 3 drives, and it can use

[zfs-discuss] Any other DRAM-based old-style SSDs out there?

2009-08-10 Thread Erik Trimble
-height (CDROM size) form factor OR 3.5 form factor (4) preferably SAS interface, though 3.0Gbps SATA is OK, too. (5) battery backup (6) sync to dedicated Compact Flash, Flash SSD, or hard drive on power failure (7) UNDER $500, without RAM. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool Layout Advice Needed

2009-08-09 Thread Erik Trimble
use it for stuff that is WORM (or at least, hardly ever changes). A sharable /usr/local or /opt springs to mind... -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-27 Thread Erik Trimble
that - several actual SAS connections in a single plug. The other 6 ports next to them (in black) are SATA ports connected to the ICH9R. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-26 Thread Erik Trimble
Master. No setting required. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] The importance of ECC RAM for ZFS

2009-07-26 Thread Erik Trimble
from them support unregistered, unbuffered ECC. I suspect it's the same for the other board makers, too. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] The importance of ECC RAM for ZFS

2009-07-26 Thread Erik Trimble
Erik Trimble wrote: I _believe_ all socket AM2, AM2+ and AM3 consumer chips (Phenom, Phenom II, Athlon X2, Athlon X3 and Athlon X4) also support unbuffered non-registered ECC. The AMD Specs page for the above processors indicates I'm right about those CPUs. Quick correction

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help with setting up ZFS

2009-07-26 Thread Erik Trimble
into a cheap tape drive or consider the external USB drive. In either case, your parents will need to backup the machine nightly, and take the tape/USB drive home with them at night (and bring it back in the morning). -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD's and ZFS...

2009-07-23 Thread Erik Trimble
to the IOPS rating for things, than the sync read/write speeds. I'm testing that set up right now for iSCSI-based xVM guests, so we'll see if it can stand the IOPs. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800

Re: [zfs-discuss] Motherboard for home zfs/solaris file server

2009-07-23 Thread Erik Trimble
- i.e. $100 or so). The Supermicro X7SBL-LN[12] boards also look good, though they won't support the network KVM option. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting actual size in bytes of a zfs fs

2009-07-06 Thread Erik Trimble
. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating 10TB of data from NTFS is there a simple way?

2009-07-04 Thread Erik Trimble
1.364TiB ~ 9.546TiB Lose 2.2% for ZFS overhead: 9.546TiB x 0.978 ~ 9.34 TiB That's todays math lesson! :-) -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating 10TB of data from NTFS is there a simple way?

2009-07-03 Thread Erik Trimble
space, give or take a hundred or two GB. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, power failures, and UPSes

2009-06-30 Thread Erik Trimble
to it for /any/ service outage. Large enough batteries to handle anything more than a couple of minutes are frankly a fire-hazard for the home, not to mention a maintenance PITA. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Dinamic Stripe

2009-06-29 Thread Erik Trimble
-rp' or 'rsync' is a good idea. We really should have something like 'zpool scrub' do this automatically. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] SPARC SATA, please.

2009-06-26 Thread Erik Trimble
under the hood (regardless of whose name is on the outside), I _hope_ it was just a HD-specific firmware bug. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] SPARC SATA, please.

2009-06-25 Thread Erik Trimble
configured. With no RAID devices configured, it runs as a pure HBA (i.e. in JBOD mode). -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] SPARC SATA, please.

2009-06-25 Thread Erik Trimble
, AND the nVidia MCP55-based 6-port SATA controller, no need for any more PCI-cards, and it supports the add-in card for remote KVM console; it's a dual-socket, Extended ATX size, though). The MCP55 is the chipset currently in use in the Sun X2200 M2 series of servers. -- Erik Trimble Java System

Re: [zfs-discuss] Speeding up resilver on x4500

2009-06-23 Thread Erik Trimble
Richard Elling wrote: Erik Trimble wrote: All this discussion hasn't answered one thing for me: exactly _how_ does ZFS do resilvering? Both in the case of mirrors, and of RAIDZ[2] ? I've seen some mention that it goes in cronological order (which to me, means that the metadata must

Re: [zfs-discuss] Speeding up resilver on x4500

2009-06-22 Thread Erik Trimble
reasonable total size (say 1MB or so). That way, you could get reconstruction rates of 100MB/s (that is, reconstruct the parity for 100MB of data, NOT writing 100MB/s). 1TB of data @ 100MB/s is only 3 hours. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara

Re: [zfs-discuss] Speeding up resilver on x4500

2009-06-22 Thread Erik Trimble
used blocks are rebuilt, but exactly what is the methodology being used? -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best controller card for 8 SATA drives ?

2009-06-21 Thread Erik Trimble
for Readzilla/Logzilla : http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/flash_drives/ocz_summit_series_sata_ii_2_5-ssd -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] cutting up a SSD for read/log use...

2009-06-21 Thread Erik Trimble
two slices instead of whole-drives? That is, one slice for Read and the other for ZIL? My main concern is exactly how the on-drive cache would be used in a two-slices configuration. In order to get decent performance, I really need the on-drive cache to be used properly. -- Erik Trimble

Re: [zfs-discuss] cutting up a SSD for read/log use...

2009-06-21 Thread Erik Trimble
Richard Elling wrote: Erik Trimble wrote: I just looked at pricing for the higher-end MLC devices, and it looks like I'm better off getting a single drive of 2X capacity than two with X capacity. Leaving aside the issue that by using 2 drives I get 2 x 3.0Gbps SATA performance instead of 1

Re: [zfs-discuss] cutting up a SSD for read/log use...

2009-06-21 Thread Erik Trimble
James Lever wrote: Hi Erik, On 22/06/2009, at 1:15 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: I just looked at pricing for the higher-end MLC devices, and it looks like I'm better off getting a single drive of 2X capacity than two with X capacity. Leaving aside the issue that by using 2 drives I get 2 x

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on 32 bit?

2009-06-19 Thread Erik Trimble
Erik Trimble wrote: Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: Are they feasible targets for zfs? The N610N that I have (BCM3302, 300MHz, 64MB) isn't even powerful enough to saturate either the gigabit wired or 802.11n wireless. It only goes about 25Mbps. Last time I test on EEPC 2G's Celeron, zfs is slow

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on 32 bit?

2009-06-18 Thread Erik Trimble
. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on 32 bit?

2009-06-17 Thread Erik Trimble
you? Each OS has its strengths and weaknesses; pick your poison. It's actually NOT a good idea for all OSes to have the same feature set. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on 32 bit?

2009-06-16 Thread Erik Trimble
-- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on 32 bit?

2009-06-14 Thread Erik Trimble
you. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz questions

2009-05-20 Thread Erik Trimble
: # zpool replace /some/path/here c0t4d0 You can do something similar for RAIDZ2 pools. Obviously, you can only have 1 fake drive in a RAIDZ1 pool, and 2 fake drives in a RAIDZ2 pool. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT

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