Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel 320 as ZIL?

2011-09-15 Thread Wes Felter
the Web. You can then over-over-provision down to any size you want by setting the HPA (I've only done this under Linux using hdparm; not sure how it's done in Solaris). Wes Felter ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] Cloud Storage

2010-08-25 Thread Wes Felter
On 8/25/10 12:42 PM, J.P. King wrote: What I would like to achieve: Large (by my standard) scale storage. Lets say petabyte scale... Redundancy across machines of data An Amazon S3 style interface Sounds like OpenStack Swift http://openstack.org/projects/storage/ Wes Felter

Re: [zfs-discuss] does sharing an SSD as slog and l2arc reduces its life span?

2010-06-21 Thread Wes Felter
said, you're assuming dynamic wear leveling but modern SSDs also use static wear leveling, so this problem doesn't exist. (Note that in this context the terms "dynamic" and "static" may not mean what you think they mean.) Wes Felter _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Heads Up: zil_disable has expired, ceased to be, ...

2010-05-06 Thread Wes Felter
the corresponding txg is committed? Think of it as a poor man's group commit. Wes Felter ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20 numbers

2010-03-31 Thread Wes Felter
ears. A MegaRAID card with write-back cache? It should also be cheaper than the F20. Wes Felter ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and receive ... any ideas for FEC?

2010-03-10 Thread Wes Felter
-bcast.inrialpes.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=5 I'm skeptical about the benefit, but there you are. Wes Felter ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced

2010-02-09 Thread Wes Felter
Have you considered Promise JBODs? They officially support bring-your-own-drives. Wes Felter ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] rethinking RaidZ and Record size

2010-01-06 Thread Wes Felter
significantly. Has anyone compared RAID-Z2 against something like LSI MegaRAID RAID-6? If a sub-$1,000 RAID controller can save thousands of dollars worth of disks it would somewhat put the lie to the idea that ZFS kills hardware RAID. Wes Felter ___ zfs

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

2010-01-05 Thread Wes Felter
Eric D. Mudama wrote: On Mon, Jan 4 at 16:43, Wes Felter wrote: Eric D. Mudama wrote: I am not convinced that a general purpose CPU, running other software in parallel, will be able to be timely and responsive enough to maximize bandwidth in an SSD controller without specialized hardware

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

2010-01-04 Thread Wes Felter
uses a fairly simple controller (I guess the controller still performs ECC and maybe XOR) and the driver eats a whole x86 core. The result is very high performance. Wes Felter ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] L2ARC in clusters

2009-12-03 Thread Wes Felter
L2ARC. Any thought? The 7310/7410 uses this type of configuration, so obviously it works. When in doubt, just think What Would Fishworks Do? Wes Felter ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs deduplication

2009-08-03 Thread Wes Felter
Dave McDorman wrote: I don't think is at liberty to discuss ZFS Deduplication at this point in time: Did Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore give a presentation at kernel.conf.au or not? If so, did anyone see the presentation? Did the conference attendees all sign NDAs or something? Wes F

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

2009-06-11 Thread Wes Felter
Paul van der Zwan wrote: Strange thing I noticed in the keynote is that they claim the disk usage of Snow Leopard is 6 GB less than Leopard mostly because of compression. Either they have implemented compressed binaries or they use filesystem compression. Neither feature is present in Leopard

Re: [zfs-discuss] schedulers [was: zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote]

2009-03-04 Thread Wes Felter
Richard Elling wrote: Wes Felter wrote: proportional scheduling for storage performance slog and L2ARC on the same SSD The current scheduler is rather simple, there might be room for improvements -- but that may be a rather extended research topic. Yes. For GSoC it would probably be wise

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Wes Felter
C. Bergström wrote: 10) Did I miss something.. T10 DIF support in zvols T10 UNMAP/thin provisioning support in zvols proportional scheduling for storage performance slog and L2ARC on the same SSD These are probably difficult but hopefully not "world hunger" level. Wes Fe

Re: [zfs-discuss] any 64-bit mini-itx successes

2008-05-02 Thread Wes Felter
squeeze Solaris down to 128MB and somehow get it in the flash, I bet it will work. Wes Felter - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] any 64-bit mini-itx successes

2008-04-29 Thread Wes Felter
I wonder how hard it would be to get Solaris running on the new ReadyNAS. http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage/ReadyNASPro.aspx Wes Felter - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Re: ISCSI + ZFS + NFS

2007-03-20 Thread Wes Felter
cedric briner wrote: But _how_ can you achieve a well sized storage (40TB) with such technologies. I mean, how can you bind physicaly 70 HD in an zfs pool. Using SAS JBODs sounds simpler, but I get the impression that they don't actually work correctly right now. Wes Felter - [

[zfs-discuss] Re: solaris - ata over ethernet - zfs - HPC

2007-02-06 Thread Wes Felter
Kevin Abbey wrote: Does this seem like a good idea? I am not a storage expert and am attempting to create a scalable distributed storage cluster for an HPC cluster. An AOE/ZFS/NFS setup doesn't sound scalable or distributed; your ZFS/NFS server may turn out to be a bottleneck.