Re: [zfs-discuss] Log disk with all ssd pool?

2011-10-27 Thread Neil Perrin
On 10/28/11 00:04, Mark Wolek wrote: Still kicking around this idea and didn’t see it addressed in any of the threads before the forum closed.    If one made an all ssd pool, would a log/cache drive just slow you down?  Would zil slow you down?  Thinking rotate MLC drives w

Re: [zfs-discuss] Log disk with all ssd pool?

2011-10-27 Thread Ian Collins
On 10/28/11 07:04 PM, Mark Wolek wrote: Still kicking around this idea and didn’t see it addressed in any of the threads before the forum closed. If one made an all ssd pool, would a log/cache drive just slow you down? Would zil slow you down? I would guess not, you would still be sprea

[zfs-discuss] Log disk with all ssd pool?

2011-10-27 Thread Mark Wolek
Still kicking around this idea and didn't see it addressed in any of the threads before the forum closed. If one made an all ssd pool, would a log/cache drive just slow you down? Would zil slow you down? Thinking rotate MLC drives with sandforce controllers every few years to avoid losing a d

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool replace not concluding + duplicate drive label

2011-10-27 Thread Andrew Freedman
On 28/10/2011, at 3:06 PM, Daniel Carosone wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:49:22AM +1100, afree...@mac.com wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm seeing some puzzling behaviour with my RAID-Z. >> > > Indeed. Start with zdb -l on each of the disks to look at the labels in more > detail. > > -- > Dan

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool replace not concluding + duplicate drive label

2011-10-27 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:49:22AM +1100, afree...@mac.com wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm seeing some puzzling behaviour with my RAID-Z. > Indeed. Start with zdb -l on each of the disks to look at the labels in more detail. -- Dan. pgpRTwLfC9flo.pgp Description: PGP signature _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

2011-10-27 Thread Hong Wei Liam
The system is freshly installed and the pools are newly created as well. The tests have been repeated with new pools recreated with different disks of the same model (Seagate ES.2). On Oct 28, 2011, at 5:58 AM, Erik Forsberg wrote: > Indeed. Just recently had very noticeable performance issues

Re: [zfs-discuss] File contents changed with no ZFS error

2011-10-27 Thread Robert Watzlavick
Just to close out the discussion, I wasn't able to prove any issues with ZFS. The files that were changed all seem to have plausible scenarios. I've moved my external USB drive backups over to ZFS directly connected to the file server and it's all working fine. Thanks for everyone's help! -

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

2011-10-27 Thread Erik Forsberg
Indeed. Just recently had very noticeable performance issues on a zfs pool that became 75% full. Fell of a cliff basically. Didnt expect that until well above 80%. Now, this was Solaris 10u8 or somewhere around that. Deleted un-needed files back to 55% and performance is excellent again. >-- Origi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

2011-10-27 Thread Erik Trimble
It occurs to me that your filesystems may not be in the same state. That is, destroy both pools. Recreate them, and run the tests. This will eliminate any possibility of allocation issues. -Erik On 10/27/2011 10:37 AM, weiliam.hong wrote: Hi, Thanks for the replies. In the beginning, I onl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

2011-10-27 Thread weiliam.hong
Hi, Thanks for the replies. In the beginning, I only had SAS drives installed when I observed the behavior, the SATA drives were added later for comparison and troubleshooting. The slow behavior is observed only after 10-15mins of running dd where the file size is about 15GB, then the throug

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-27 Thread David Magda
On Thu, October 27, 2011 11:32, Albert Shih wrote: >> I also recommend LSI 9200-8E or new 9205-8E with the IT firmware based >> on past experience > > Do you known if the LSI-9205-8E HBA or the LSI-9202-16E HBA work under > FreBSD 9.0 ? Check the man page for mpt(4): http://www.freebsd.org/c

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

2011-10-27 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
if you get rid of the HBA and log device, and run with ZIL > disabled (if your work load is compatible with a disabled ZIL.) By "get rid of the HBA" I assume you mean put in a battery-backed RAID card instead? -J ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discus

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-27 Thread Albert Shih
Le 19/10/2011 à 19:23:26-0700, Rocky Shek a écrit Hi. Thanks for this information. > I also recommend LSI 9200-8E or new 9205-8E with the IT firmware based on > past experience Do you known if the LSI-9205-8E HBA or the LSI-9202-16E HBA work under FreBSD 9.0 ? Best regards. Regards. --

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

2011-10-27 Thread Brian Wilson
On 10/27/11 07:03 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of weiliam.hong 3. All 4 drives are connected to a single HBA, so I assume the mpt_sas driver is used. Are SAS and SATA drives handled differently ?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor relative performance of SAS over SATA drives

2011-10-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of weiliam.hong > > 3. All 4 drives are connected to a single HBA, so I assume the mpt_sas driver > is used. Are SAS and SATA drives handled differently ? If they're all on the same HBA, they may