Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Appliance as a general-purpose server question

2012-11-27 Thread Edmund White
On 11/27/12 1:52 AM, Grégory Giannoni s...@narguile.org wrote: Le 27 nov. 2012 à 01:17, Erik Trimble a écrit : On 11/26/2012 12:54 PM, Grégory Giannoni wrote: [snip] I switched few month ago from Sun X45x0 to HP things : My fast NAS are now DL 180 G6. I got better perfs using LSI 9240-8I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Appliance as a general-purpose server question

2012-11-27 Thread Grégory Giannoni
[...] The results were the same with 10 or 25 drives, so I suspected either the PCI bus, either the expander in the 25-drives bay (HP 530946-001). Plugging the disks directly to the LSI card allowed to gain few MB/s : the expander was limiting a bit, but moreover, it disallowed to use more

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on SunFire X2100M2 with hybrid pools

2012-11-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Eugen Leitl can I make e.g. LSI SAS3442E directly do SSD caching (it says something about CacheCade, but I'm not sure it's an OS-side driver thing), as it is supposed to boost IOPS?

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on SunFire X2100M2 with hybrid pools

2012-11-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:12:43PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Eugen Leitl can I make e.g. LSI SAS3442E directly do SSD caching (it says

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on SunFire X2100M2 with hybrid pools

2012-11-27 Thread Jim Klimov
Performance-wise, I think you should go for mirrors/raid10, and separate the pools (i.e. rpool mirror on SSD and data mirror on HDDs). If you have 4 SSDs, you might mirror the other couple for zoneroots or some databases in datasets delegated into zones, for example. Don't use dedup. Carve out

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on SunFire X2100M2 with hybrid pools

2012-11-27 Thread Jim Klimov
Now that I thought of it some more, a follow-up is due on my advices: 1) While the best practices do(did) dictate to set up zoneroots in rpool, this is certainly not required - and I maintain lots of systems which store zones in separate data pools. This minimizes write-impact on rpools

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on SunFire X2100M2 with hybrid pools

2012-11-27 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:13 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: Now there are multiple configurations for this. Some using Linux (roof fs on a RAID10, /home on RAID 1) or zfs. Now zfs on Linux probably wouldn't do hybrid zfs pools (would it?) Sure it does. You can even use the whole disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel DC S3700

2012-11-27 Thread Mauricio Tavares
Going a bit on a tangent, does anyone know if those drives are available for sale anywhere? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Question about degraded drive

2012-11-27 Thread Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC
Hello, I have a degraded mirror set and this is has happened a few times (not always the same drive) over the last two years. In the past I replaced the drive and and ran zpool replace and all was well. I am wondering, however, if it is safe to run zpool replace without replacing the drive to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question about degraded drive

2012-11-27 Thread Freddie Cash
You don't use replace on mirror vdevs. 'zpool detach' the failed drive. Then 'zpool attach' the new drive. On Nov 27, 2012 6:00 PM, Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC cdun...@earthside.net wrote: Hello, ** ** I have a degraded mirror set and this is has happened a few times (not always the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question about degraded drive

2012-11-27 Thread Freddie Cash
And you can try 'zpool online' on the failed drive to see if it comes back online. On Nov 27, 2012 6:08 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: You don't use replace on mirror vdevs. 'zpool detach' the failed drive. Then 'zpool attach' the new drive. On Nov 27, 2012 6:00 PM, Chris Dunbar -

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question about degraded drive

2012-11-27 Thread Jan Owoc
Hi Chris, On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Chris Dunbar - Earthside, LLC cdun...@earthside.net wrote: Hello, ** ** I have a degraded mirror set and this is has happened a few times (not always the same drive) over the last two years. In the past I replaced the drive and and ran zpool

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question about degraded drive

2012-11-27 Thread Chris Dunbar
Sorry, I was skipping bits to get to the main point. I did use replace (as previously instructed on the list). I think that worked because my spare had taken over for the failed drive. That's the same situation now - spare in service for the failed drive. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 27, 2012,