Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-08-06 Thread Günther
hi br as already said above. zfs property shareiscsi is obsolet and slow. use comstar instead!br br be careful.br if you switch to comstar, your current iscsi is no longer available. save the data first. and if you want to have it more user-friendly, you could als try napp-it, my free web-gui for

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-08-05 Thread Roch
Ross Walker writes: On Aug 4, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Roch roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Ross Walker writes: On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Roch roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Ross Asks: So on that note, ZFS should disable the disks' write cache, not enable them

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-08-05 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 5, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Roch roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Ross Walker writes: On Aug 4, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Roch roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Ross Walker writes: On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Roch roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Ross Asks: So on that note, ZFS should

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-08-05 Thread Roch Bourbonnais
Le 5 août 2010 à 19:49, Ross Walker a écrit : On Aug 5, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Roch roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Ross Walker writes: On Aug 4, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Roch roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Ross Walker writes: On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Roch roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-08-05 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 5, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Roch Bourbonnais roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Le 5 août 2010 à 19:49, Ross Walker a écrit : On Aug 5, 2010, at 11:10 AM, Roch roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Ross Walker writes: On Aug 4, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Roch roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Ross

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-08-04 Thread Roch
Ross Walker writes: On Aug 3, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Roch Bourbonnais roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Le 27 mai 2010 à 07:03, Brent Jones a écrit : On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Matt Connolly matt.connolly...@gmail.com wrote: I've set up an iScsi volume on

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-08-04 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 4, 2010, at 3:52 AM, Roch roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Ross Walker writes: On Aug 3, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Roch Bourbonnais roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Le 27 mai 2010 à 07:03, Brent Jones a écrit : On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Matt Connolly

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-08-04 Thread Roch
Ross Asks: So on that note, ZFS should disable the disks' write cache, not enable them despite ZFS's COW properties because it should be resilient. No, because ZFS builds resiliency on top of unreliable parts. it's able to deal with contained failures (lost state) of the disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-08-04 Thread Matt Connolly
On 04/08/2010, at 2:13, Roch Bourbonnais roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Le 27 mai 2010 à 07:03, Brent Jones a écrit : On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Matt Connolly matt.connolly...@gmail.com wrote: I've set up an iScsi volume on OpenSolaris (snv_134) with these commands: sh-4.0# zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-08-04 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Roch roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Ross Asks: So on that note, ZFS should disable the disks' write cache, not enable them despite ZFS's COW properties because it should be resilient. No, because ZFS builds resiliency on top of unreliable parts. it's

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-08-04 Thread Roch
Ross Walker writes: On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Roch roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Ross Asks: So on that note, ZFS should disable the disks' write cache, not enable them despite ZFS's COW properties because it should be resilient. No, because ZFS builds

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-08-04 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 4, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Roch roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Ross Walker writes: On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Roch roch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Ross Asks: So on that note, ZFS should disable the disks' write cache, not enable them despite ZFS's COW properties because it

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-08-03 Thread Roch Bourbonnais
Le 27 mai 2010 à 07:03, Brent Jones a écrit : On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Matt Connolly matt.connolly...@gmail.com wrote: I've set up an iScsi volume on OpenSolaris (snv_134) with these commands: sh-4.0# zfs create rpool/iscsi sh-4.0# zfs set shareiscsi=on rpool/iscsi sh-4.0# zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-08-03 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 3, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Robert Milkowski mi...@task.gda.pl wrote: On 03/08/2010 22:49, Ross Walker wrote: On Aug 3, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Roch Bourbonnaisroch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Le 27 mai 2010 à 07:03, Brent Jones a écrit : On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Matt

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-08-03 Thread Saxon, Will
-Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Robert Milkowski Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 5:57 PM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow On 03/08/2010 22:49, Ross Walker

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-08-03 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 3, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Robert Milkowski mi...@task.gda.pl wrote: On 03/08/2010 22:49, Ross Walker wrote: On Aug 3, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Roch Bourbonnaisroch.bourbonn...@sun.com wrote: Le 27 mai 2010 à 07:03, Brent Jones a écrit : On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Matt

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-08-03 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 03/08/2010 23:20, Ross Walker wrote: Nothing has been violated here. Look for WCE flag in COMSTAR where you can control how a given zvol should behave (synchronous or asynchronous). Additionally in recent build you have zfs set sync={disabled|default|always} which also works with zvols.

[zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-05-26 Thread Matt Connolly
I've set up an iScsi volume on OpenSolaris (snv_134) with these commands: sh-4.0# zfs create rpool/iscsi sh-4.0# zfs set shareiscsi=on rpool/iscsi sh-4.0# zfs create -s -V 10g rpool/iscsi/test The underlying zpool is a mirror of two SATA drives. I'm connecting from a Mac client with global SAN

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-05-26 Thread Scott Meilicke
iSCSI writes require a sync to disk for every write. SMB writes get cached in memory, therefore are much faster. I am not sure why it is so slow for reads. Have you tried comstar iSCSI? I have read in these forums that it is faster. -Scott -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-05-26 Thread Richard Elling
On May 26, 2010, at 5:08 AM, Matt Connolly wrote: I've set up an iScsi volume on OpenSolaris (snv_134) with these commands: sh-4.0# zfs create rpool/iscsi sh-4.0# zfs set shareiscsi=on rpool/iscsi sh-4.0# zfs create -s -V 10g rpool/iscsi/test NB shareiscsi uses the legacy iSCSI target and

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-05-26 Thread Geoff Nordli
-Original Message- From: Matt Connolly Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 5:08 AM I've set up an iScsi volume on OpenSolaris (snv_134) with these commands: sh-4.0# zfs create rpool/iscsi sh-4.0# zfs set shareiscsi=on rpool/iscsi sh-4.0# zfs create -s -V 10g rpool/iscsi/test The underlying

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-05-26 Thread iMx
I've set up an iScsi volume on OpenSolaris (snv_134) with these commands: sh-4.0# zfs create rpool/iscsi sh-4.0# zfs set shareiscsi=on rpool/iscsi sh-4.0# zfs create -s -V 10g rpool/iscsi/test The underlying zpool is a mirror of two SATA drives. I'm connecting from a Mac client

Re: [zfs-discuss] iScsi slow

2010-05-26 Thread Brent Jones
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Matt Connolly matt.connolly...@gmail.com wrote: I've set up an iScsi volume on OpenSolaris (snv_134) with these commands: sh-4.0# zfs create rpool/iscsi sh-4.0# zfs set shareiscsi=on rpool/iscsi sh-4.0# zfs create -s -V 10g rpool/iscsi/test The underlying