Re: [zfs-discuss] Where is the ZFS configuration data stored?

2006-10-13 Thread Keith Clay
Does it matter if the /dev names of the partitions change (i.e. from / dev/dsk/c2t2250CC611005d3s0 to another machine not using sun hba drivers with a different/shorter name??) thanks keith If the file does not exist than ZFS will not attempt to open any pools at boot. You must

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: please remove my ignorance of raiding andmirroring

2006-10-02 Thread Keith Clay
On Oct 1, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Anton B. Rang wrote: I was perhaps slightly hasty; RAID-5 is more efficient than a 2- disk mirror for reads, but RAID-10 (striping mirroring) can match (or slightly exceed) its efficiency for small reads. In both cases, there is a single disk accessed. With

Re: [zfs-discuss] jbod questions

2006-09-29 Thread Keith Clay
On Sep 29, 2006, at 2:41 AM, Roch wrote: IMO, RAIDZn should perform admirably on the write loads. The random reads aspects is more limited. The simple rule of thumb is to consider that a RAIDZ group will deliver random read IOPS with the performance characteristic of single device. That

[zfs-discuss] please remove my ignorance of raiding and mirroring

2006-09-29 Thread Keith Clay
Folks, I've heard that for small reads/writes (like a mailstore), mirroring is preferred to raiding. Can some explain why or direct me to that info? I assumed that raidzn would be the preferred method but apparently not. thanks, keith ___

[zfs-discuss] jbod questions

2006-09-28 Thread Keith Clay
Folks, We are in the process of purchasing new san/s that our mail server runs on (JES3). We have moved our mailstores to zfs and continue to have checksum errors -- they are corrected but this improves on the ufs inode errors that require system shutdown and fsck. So, I am recommending