Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun X4200 Question...

2013-03-14 Thread Gary Driggs
On Mar 14, 2013, at 5:55 PM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: However, recently the VM virtual hardware clocks became way slow. Does NTP help correct the guest's clock? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Distro Advice

2013-02-26 Thread Gary Driggs
On Feb 26, 2013, at 12:44 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: I'd also recommend that you go and subscribe to z...@lists.illumos.org, since this list is going to get shut down by Oracle next month. Whose description still reads, everything ZFS running on illumos-based distributions. -Gary

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sonnet Tempo SSD supported?

2012-12-04 Thread Gary Driggs
On Dec 4, 2012, Eugen Leitl wrote: Either way I'll know the hardware support situation soon enough. Have you tried contacting Sonnet? -Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] IOzone benchmarking

2012-05-01 Thread Gary Driggs
On May 1, 2012, at 1:41 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: Throughput: iozone -m -t 8 -T -r 128k -o -s 36G -R -b bigfile.xls IOPS: iozone -O -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 -e -+n -r 128K -s 288G iops.txt Do you expect to be reading or writing 36 or 288Gb files very often on this array? The largest file size

Re: [zfs-discuss] Seagate Constellation vs. Hitachi Ultrastar

2012-04-06 Thread Gary Driggs
I've seen a couple sources that suggest prices should be dropping by the end of April -- apparently not as low as pre flood prices due in part to a rise in manufacturing costs but about 10% lower than they're priced today. -Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Comes to OS X Courtesy of Apple's Former Chief ZFS Architect

2012-01-31 Thread Gary Driggs
It looks like the first iteration has finally launched... http://tenscomplement.com/our-products/zevo-silver-edition http://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/31/zfs-comes-to-os-x-courtesy-of-apples-former-chief-zfs-architect ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Gary Driggs
I can't comment on their 4U servers but HP's 12U includwd SAS controllers rarely allow JBOD discovery of drives. So I'd recommend an LSI card and an external storage chassis like those available from Promise and others. -Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any HP Servers recommendation for Openindiana (Capacity Server) ?

2012-01-03 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jan 3, 2012, at 10:36 PM, Eric D. Mudama wrote: Supposedly the H200/H700 cards are just their name for the 6gbit LSI SAS cards, but I haven't tested them personally. They might use the same chipset but their firmware usually doesn't support JBOD. Unless they've changed in the last couple

Re: [zfs-discuss] CPU sizing for ZFS/iSCSI/NFS server

2011-12-12 Thread Gary Driggs
On Dec 12, 2011, at 11:42 AM, \Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D.\ wrote: please check out the ZFS appliance 7120 spec 2.4Ghz /24GB memory and ZIL(SSD) Do those appliances also use the F20 PCIe flash cards? I know the Exadata storage cells use them but they aren't utilizing ZFS in the Linux

Re: [zfs-discuss] Improving L1ARC cache efficiency with dedup

2011-12-11 Thread Gary Driggs
What kind of drives are we talking about? Even SATA drives are available according to application type (desktop, enterprise server, home PVR, surveillance PVR, etc). Then there are drives with SAS fiber channel interfaces. Then you've got Winchester platters vs SSD vs hybrids. But even before

[zfs-discuss] ZFS forensics

2011-11-23 Thread Gary Driggs
Is zdb still the only way to dive in to the file system? I've seen the extensive work by Max Bruning on this but wonder if there are any tools that make this easier...? -Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS forensics

2011-11-23 Thread Gary Driggs
On Nov 23, 2011, Hung-Sheng Tsao (Lao Tsao 老曹) Ph.D. : did you see this link Thank you for this. Some of the other refs it lists will come in handy as well. kind regards, Gary ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org