Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-10 Thread Peter Tribble
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Gregory Durham gregory.dur...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, We just purchased two of the sc847e26-rjbod1 units to be used in a storage environment running Solaris 11 express. We are using Hitachi HUA723020ALA640 6 gb/s drives with an LSI SAS 9200-8e hba. We are not

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-10 Thread phil.har...@gmail.com
be quicker because it just allocates blocks, whereas subsequent rewrites require copy-on-write. - Reply message - From: Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.com To: Gregory Durham gregory.dur...@gmail.com Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro Date: Wed

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-10 Thread phil.har...@gmail.com
be quicker because it just allocates blocks, whereas subsequent rewrites require copy-on-write. - Reply message - From: Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.com To: Gregory Durham gregory.dur...@gmail.com Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro Date: Wed

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-10 Thread Gregory Durham
copy-on-write. - Reply message - From: Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.com To: Gregory Durham gregory.dur...@gmail.com Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro Date: Wed, Aug 10, 2011 10:56 On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Gregory Durham

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-10 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
...@gmail.com Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro Date: Wed, Aug 10, 2011 10:56 On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Gregory Durham gregory.dur...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, We just purchased two of the sc847e26-rjbod1 units to be used in a storage

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-10 Thread Gregory Durham
rewrites require copy-on-write. - Reply message - From: Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.com To: Gregory Durham gregory.dur...@gmail.com Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro Date: Wed, Aug 10, 2011 10:56 On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:45

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-10 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro Date: Wed, Aug 10, 2011 10:56 On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Gregory Durham gregory.dur...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, We just purchased two of the sc847e26-rjbod1 units to be used in a storage environment running Solaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-10 Thread Paul Kraus
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Gregory Durham gregory.dur...@gmail.com wrote: 3) In order to deal with caching, I am writing larger amounts of data to the disk then I have memory for. The other trick is to limit the ARC to a much smaller value and then you can test with sane amounts of data.

[zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-09 Thread Gregory Durham
Hello, We just purchased two of the sc847e26-rjbod1 units to be used in a storage environment running Solaris 11 express. We are using Hitachi HUA723020ALA640 6 gb/s drives with an LSI SAS 9200-8e hba. We are not using failover/redundancy. Meaning that one port of the hba goes to the primary

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-09 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 9 Aug 2011, Gregory Durham wrote: Hello, We just purchased two of the sc847e26-rjbod1 units to be used in a storage environment running Solaris 11 express. root@cm-srfe03:/home/gdurham~# zpool destroy fooPool0 root@cm-srfe03:/home/gdurham~# sh createPool.sh 4 What is 'createPool.sh'?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issues with supermicro

2011-08-09 Thread Paul Kraus
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Gregory Durham gregory.dur...@gmail.com wrote: For testing, we have done the following: Installed 12 disks in the front, 0 in the back. Created a stripe of different numbers of disks. So you are creating one zpool with one disk per vdev and varying the number