[zfs-discuss] RAIDZ versus mirrroed

2009-09-16 Thread eneal
Hi. If I am using slightly more reliable SAS drives versus SATA, SSDs for both L2Arc and ZIL and lots of RAM, will a mirrored pool of say 24 disks hold any significant advantages over a RAIDZ pool? This

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ versus mirrroed

2009-09-16 Thread eneal
Quoting David Magda dma...@ee.ryerson.ca: On Wed, September 16, 2009 10:31, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Hi. If I am using slightly more reliable SAS drives versus SATA, SSDs for both L2Arc and ZIL and lots of RAM, will a mirrored pool of say 24 disks hold any significant advantages over a RAIDZ

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lightning SSD with 180,000 IOPs, 320MB/s writes

2009-09-15 Thread eneal
Quoting Brian Hechinger wo...@4amlunch.net: If you need to ask you can't afford it? :-D -brian -- We can all dream can't we? This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended

[zfs-discuss] How ZFS prefetch issues impact the use of Zvols are remote LUNs

2009-09-03 Thread eneal
Hi. As the subject indicates, I'm trying to understand the impact of the ZFS prefetch issues and if they only impact a local zfs filesystem versus say a zvol that remotely using the lun via iSCSI or Fibrechannel. Can anyone comment on this? The specific issues are consolidated here:

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] How ZFS prefetch issues impact the use of Zvols are remote LUNs

2009-09-03 Thread eneal
Quoting en...@businessgrade.com: Hi. As the subject indicates, I'm trying to understand the impact of the ZFS prefetch issues and if they only impact a local zfs filesystem versus say a zvol that remotely using the lun via iSCSI or Fibrechannel. Can anyone comment on this? The specific issues

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read performance scalability

2009-08-31 Thread eneal
Quoting Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us: On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, en...@businessgrade.com wrote: Hi. I've been doing some simple read/write tests using filebench on a mirrored pool. Essentially, I've been scaling up the number of disks in the pool before each test between 4, 8

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read performance scalability

2009-08-31 Thread eneal
Quoting Mertol Ozyoney mertol.ozyo...@sun.com: Hi; You may be hitting a bottleneck at your HBA. Try using multiple HBA's or drive channels Mertol I'm pretty sure it's not a HBA issue. As I commented, my per-disk write throughput stayed pretty consistent for 4, 8 and 12 disk pools and