Re: [zfs-discuss] reliable, enterprise worthy JBODs?

2011-01-26 Thread Lasse Osterild
On 25/01/2011, at 22.39, Ian Collins wrote: On 01/26/11 09:50 AM, Lasse Osterild wrote: I'd go with some Dell MD1200's, for us they ended up being cheaper (incl disks) than a SuperMicro case with the same model disks, and it's way nicer than the low-quality SuperMicro stuff. That's an

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recurring checksum errors on RAIDZ2 vdev

2011-01-26 Thread Ashley Nicholls
fmdump -eV is very verbose and far too long to post here :) Here is a snippet of a scsi error and a zfs checksum error from the log though. Jan 20 2011 18:50:16.276742278 ereport.io.scsi.cmd.disk.dev.rqs.merr nvlist version: 0 class = ereport.io.scsi.cmd.disk.dev.rqs.merr ena =

[zfs-discuss] Lower latency ZIL Option?: SSD behind Controller BB Write Cache

2011-01-26 Thread James
I’m wondering if any of the ZIL gurus could examine the following and point out anywhere my logic is going wrong. For small backend systems (e.g. 24x10k SAS Raid 10) I’m expecting an absolute maximum backend write throughput of 1 seq IOPS** and more realistically 2000-5000. With

Re: [zfs-discuss] mix 4k wdd drives whit 512 WD drives ?

2011-01-26 Thread Benji
Those WD20EARS emulate 512 bytes sectors, so yes you can freely mix and match them with other regular 512 bytes drives. Some have reported slower read/write speeds but nothing catastrophic. Or you can create a new 4K aligned pool (composed of only 4K drives!) to really take advantage of them.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lower latency ZIL Option?: SSD behind Controller BB Write Cache

2011-01-26 Thread Christopher George
ZIL OPTIONS: Obviously a DDRdrive is the ideal (36k 4k random IOPS***) but for the same budget I can get 2x Vertex 2 EX 50GB drives and put each behind it’s own P410 512MB BBWC controller. The Vertex 2 EX goes for approximately $900 each online, while the P410/512 BBWC is listed at HP for

Re: [zfs-discuss] mix 4k wdd drives whit 512 WD drives ?

2011-01-26 Thread Tomas Ögren
On 26 January, 2011 - Benji sent me these 0,8K bytes: Those WD20EARS emulate 512 bytes sectors, so yes you can freely mix and match them with other regular 512 bytes drives. Some have reported slower read/write speeds but nothing catastrophic. For some workloads, 3x slower than it should be.

Re: [zfs-discuss] mix 4k wdd drives whit 512 WD drives ?

2011-01-26 Thread Deano
If 512B drive is used with 4KiB ashift, there may be a performance lost (as more data will be pushed and read from the drive). It not so much the drives are lying, just they don't implement the ATAPI standard (for SATA) to tell the OS they are really 4KiB drives. A firmware update would fix this.

Re: [zfs-discuss] reliable, enterprise worthy JBODs?

2011-01-26 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Lasse Osterild lass...@unixzone.dk wrote: On 01/26/11 09:50 AM, Lasse Osterild wrote: That's an odd comment.  I've used a fair bit of SuperMicro kit over the years and I wouldn't describe any of it as low-quality. Nothing odd about it - I've had three

[zfs-discuss] n-tiered storage?

2011-01-26 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all Is there anything usable for zfs/openindiana that allows for multi-tiered storage? The scenario is as thus: We have a 50TB storage unit which was built to be an archive, but lately, scientists have been using this for a fileserver for modelling. Pracitaclly, this means 50+ processes

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changed ACL behavior in snv_151 ?

2011-01-26 Thread Ryan John
-Original Message- From: Frank Lahm [mailto:frankl...@googlemail.com] Sent: 25 January 2011 14:50 To: Ryan John Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Changed ACL behavior in snv_151 ? John, welcome onboard! 2011/1/25 Ryan John john.r...@bsse.ethz.ch: I’m