[zfs-discuss] Thumper (X4500), and CF SSD for L2ARC = ?

2011-10-14 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello, I was asked if the CF port in Thumpers can be accessed by the OS? In particular, would it be a good idea to use a modern 600x CF card (some reliable one intended for professional photography) as an L2ARC device using this port? Thanks, //Jim

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper (X4500), and CF SSD for L2ARC = ?

2011-10-14 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 10/14/11 13:39, Jim Klimov wrote: Hello, I was asked if the CF port in Thumpers can be accessed by the OS? In particular, would it be a good idea to use a modern 600x CF card (some reliable one intended for professional photography) as an L2ARC device using this port? I don't know about the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper (X4500), and CF SSD for L2ARC = ?

2011-10-14 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-10-14 21:01, Jordan Schwartz пишет: Try and get your hands on a Sun F20 Card which has 4 x 25GB SSD Modules on a PCI card. Thanks, but I believe currently that's out of budget, but a 90MB/s CF module may be acceptable for the small business customer. I wondered if that is known to work or

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper (X4500), and CF SSD for L2ARC = ?

2011-10-14 Thread Erik Trimble
On 10/14/2011 5:49 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote: On 10/14/11 13:39, Jim Klimov wrote: Hello, I was asked if the CF port in Thumpers can be accessed by the OS? In particular, would it be a good idea to use a modern 600x CF card (some reliable one intended for professional photography) as an L2ARC

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper (X4500), and CF SSD for L2ARC = ?

2011-10-14 Thread Gregory Shaw
You might want to keep in mind that the X4500 was a ~2006 box, and had only PCI-X slots. Or, at least, that's what the 3 Iv'e got have. I think the X4540 had PCIe, but I never got one of those. :-( I haven't seen any cache accelerator PCI-X cards. However, what I've done on the X4500

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper (X4500), and CF SSD for L2ARC = ?

2011-10-14 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-10-14 23:57, Gregory Shaw пишет: You might want to keep in mind that the X4500 was a ~2006 box, and had only PCI-X slots. Or, at least, that's what the 3 Iv'e got have. I think the X4540 had PCIe, but I never got one of those. :-( I haven't seen any cache accelerator PCI-X cards.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper (X4500), and CF SSD for L2ARC = ?

2011-10-14 Thread Gregory Shaw
Here's the zpool layout. You don't really have a choice on the boot volume -- the system supports only two drives on the same chain. The remaining drives are as shown: pool: internal state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h0m with 0 errors on Sat Oct 8 21:15:42 2011 config: