Re: [zfs-discuss] Large scale performance query

2011-07-31 Thread Evgueni Martynov
On 25/07/2011 2:34 AM, Phil Harrison wrote: Hi All, Hoping to gain some insight from some people who have done large scale systems before? I'm hoping to get some performance estimates, suggestions and/or general discussion/feedback. I cannot discuss the exact specifics of the purpose but will

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-07-31 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 11:22:36AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 05:58:49PM +0200, Hans Rosenfeld wrote: > > > I'm working on a patch for grub that fixes the ashift=12 issue. > > Oh, great - and from the looks of the patch, for other values of 12 as > well :) > > > I'm

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-07-31 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 05:58:49PM +0200, Hans Rosenfeld wrote: > I'm working on a patch for grub that fixes the ashift=12 issue. Oh, great - and from the looks of the patch, for other values of 12 as well :) > I'm probably not going to fix the div-by-zero reboot. Fair enough, if it's an exist

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCore 3.1 - ZFS V. 28

2011-07-31 Thread Volker A. Brandt
> I'm 99% sure N36L takes 3 TByte SATA, as we have 5 of such > systems in production using the more expensive 3 TByte Hitachis. That is very good to hear, thank you! > You can't boot from them, of course, but that's what the internal > USB and external eSATA ports are good for. Of course, but t

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCore 3.1 - ZFS V. 28

2011-07-31 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 31, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 05:19:07AM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: > >> >> Yes. You can attach a ZIL or L2ARC device anytime after the pool is created. > > Excellent. :-) > >> Also, I think you want an Intel 320, NOT the 311, for use as a ZIL. T

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCore 3.1 - ZFS V. 28

2011-07-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 05:19:07AM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: > > Yes. You can attach a ZIL or L2ARC device anytime after the pool is created. Excellent. > Also, I think you want an Intel 320, NOT the 311, for use as a ZIL. The > 320 includes capacitors, so if you lose power, your ZIL doesn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCore 3.1 - ZFS V. 28

2011-07-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 03:45:23PM +0200, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > I would be very interested in hearing about your success. Especially, > if the Hitachi HDS5C3030ALA630 SATA-III disks work in the N36L at all. > > My guess would be that the on-board SATA-II controller will not > support more th

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCore 3.1 - ZFS V. 28

2011-07-31 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Hello Eugen! > I finally came around installing NexentaCore 3.1 along with > napp-it and AMP on a HP N36L with 8 GBytes RAM. I'm testing > it with 4x 1 and 1.5 TByte consumer SATA drives (Seagate) > with raidz2 and raidz3 and like what I see so far. > > Given http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.j

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCore 3.1 - ZFS V. 28

2011-07-31 Thread Erik Trimble
On 7/31/2011 4:29 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:56:38PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: apt-get update apt-clone upgrade Any first impressions? I finally came around installing NexentaCore 3.1 along with napp-it and AMP on a HP N36L with 8 GBytes RAM. I'm testing it with 4x 1 and

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCore 3.1 - ZFS V. 28

2011-07-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:56:38PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > apt-get update > apt-clone upgrade > > Any first impressions? I finally came around installing NexentaCore 3.1 along with napp-it and AMP on a HP N36L with 8 GBytes RAM. I'm testing it with 4x 1 and 1.5 TByte consumer SATA drives (