Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-19 Thread Monish Shah
Hello Greg, I'm curious how much performance benefit you gain from the ZIL accelerator. Have you measured that? If not, do you have a gut feel about how much it helped? Also, for what kind of applications does it help? (I know it helps with synchronous writes. I'm looking for real world

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

2009-06-30 Thread Monish Shah
A related question: If you are on a UPS, is it OK to disable ZIL? The evil tuning guide says The ZIL is an essential part of ZFS and should never be disabled. However, if you have a UPS, what can go wrong that really requires ZIL? Opinions? Monish - Original Message - From: Ross

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-17 Thread Monish Shah
Hello Richard, Monish Shah wrote: What about when the compression is performed in dedicated hardware? Shouldn't compression be on by default in that case? How do I put in an RFE for that? Is there a bugs.intel.com? :-) I may have misled you. I'm not asking for Intel to add hardware

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-17 Thread Monish Shah
Unless you're in GIMP working on JPEGs, or doing some kind of MPEG video editing--or ripping audio (MP3 / AAC / FLAC) stuff. All of which are probably some of the largest files in most people's homedirs nowadays. indeed. I think only programmers will see any substantial benefit from

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-16 Thread Monish Shah
Hello, I would like to add one more point to this. Everyone seems to agree that compression is useful for reducing load on the disks and the disagreement is about the impact on CPU utilization, right? What about when the compression is performed in dedicated hardware? Shouldn't compression

Re: [zfs-discuss] Asymmetric mirroring

2009-06-11 Thread Monish Shah
be appreciated. Monish Monish Shah CEO, Indra Networks, Inc. www.indranetworks.com Use the SAS drives as l2arc for a pool on sata disks. If your l2arc is the full size of your pool, you won't see reads from the pool (once the cache is primed). If you're purchasing all the gear from

[zfs-discuss] Asymmetric mirroring

2009-06-10 Thread Monish Shah
Hello everyone, I'm wondering if the following makes sense: To configure a system for high IOPS, I want to have a zpool of 15K RPM SAS drives. For high IOPS, I believe it is best to let ZFS stripe them, instead of doing a raidz1 across them. Therefore, I would like to mirror the drives for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can this be done?

2009-03-29 Thread Monish Shah
Hello David and Michael, Well I might back up the more important stuff offsite. But in theory it's all replaceable. Just would be a pain. And what is the cost of the time to replace it versus the price of a hard disk? Time ~ money. This is true, but there is one counterpoint. If you do

[zfs-discuss] Encryption through compression?

2009-03-12 Thread Monish Shah
with this? There are probably various gotchas here that I haven't thought of. If you can think of any, please let me know. Thanks, Monish Monish Shah CEO, Indra Networks, Inc. www.indranetworks.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption through compression?

2009-03-12 Thread Monish Shah
Hello Darren, Monish Shah wrote: Hello everyone, My understanding is that the ZFS crypto framework will not release until 2010. That is incorrect information, where did you get that from ? It was in Mike Shapiro's presentation at the Open Solaris Storage Summit that took place a couple