Re: [zfs-discuss] [vserver] hybrid zfs pools as iSCSI targets for vserver

2011-08-07 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
1) is this a good idea? 2) any of you are running vserver guests on iSCSI targets? Happy with it? Yes, we have been using iSCSI to hold vserver guests for a couple of years now and are generally unhappy with it. Besides our general distress at Nexenta, there is the constraint of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] [vserver] hybrid zfs pools as iSCSI targets for vserver

2011-08-07 Thread Carson Gaspar
On 8/7/11 6:36 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: That's why, back in 1992, the sliding window protocol was created (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1323), so that a peer won't wait for a TCP ACK before resuming operation. It was part of TCP _long_ before that (it was never as stupid as XMODEM

Re: [zfs-discuss] [vserver] hybrid zfs pools as iSCSI targets for vserver

2011-08-07 Thread Carson Gaspar
maximum memory page size and is limited to no more than 4KB. iSCSI appears to acknowledge every individual block that is sent. That means the most data one can stream without an ACK is 4KB. That means the throughput is limited by the latency of the network rather than the bandwidth. I am

Re: [zfs-discuss] [vserver] hybrid zfs pools as iSCSI targets for vserver

2011-08-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
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Re: [zfs-discuss] [vserver] hybrid zfs pools as iSCSI targets for vserver

2011-08-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
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