Re: [zfs-discuss] optimal layout for 8x 1 TByte SATA (consumer)

2011-05-29 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
And if the ZFS is supposedly smart enough to use request coalescing as to minimize mechanical seek times, then it might actually be possible that your disks would get stuck averagely serving requests from different parts of the platter, i.e. middle-inside and middle-outside and this

Re: [zfs-discuss] DDT sync?

2011-05-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey (1) I'll push the recordsize back up to 128k, and then repeat this test something slightly smaller than 128k. Say, 120k. Good news. :-) Changing the recordsize made a

Re: [zfs-discuss] offline dedup

2011-05-29 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 07:28:06AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: Daniel Carosone [mailto:d...@geek.com.au] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 8:19 PM Once your data is dedup'ed, by whatever means, access to it is the same. You need enough memory+l2arc to indirect references via