Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert Zpool RAID Types

2006-11-30 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Richard, Thank you for taking so much time on this! The array is a StorageTek FLX210 so it is a bit underpowered...best we could afford at the time. In terms of the load on it we have two servers running Solaris 10. Each physical server then has two containers, each one has a MySQL instance

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert Zpool RAID Types

2006-11-30 Thread Richard Elling
Hi Jason, It seems to me that there is some detailed information which would be needed for a full analysis. So, to keep the ball rolling, I'll respond generally. Jason J. W. Williams wrote: Hi Richard, Been watching the stats on the array and the cache hits are < 3% on these volumes. We're ver

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert Zpool RAID Types

2006-11-29 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Richard, Been watching the stats on the array and the cache hits are < 3% on these volumes. We're very write heavy, and rarely write similar enough data twice. Having random oriented database data and sequential-oriented database log data on the same volume groups, it seems to me this was caus

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert Zpool RAID Types

2006-11-29 Thread Richard Elling
Jason J. W. Williams wrote: Hi Richard, Originally, my thinking was I'd like drop one member out of a 3 member RAID-Z and turn it into a RAID-1 zpool. You would need to destroy the pool to do this -- requiring the data to be copied twice. Although, at the moment I'm not sure. So many optio

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert Zpool RAID Types

2006-11-28 Thread Richard Elling
comment below... Jason J. W. Williams wrote: Hi Richard, Originally, my thinking was I'd like drop one member out of a 3 member RAID-Z and turn it into a RAID-1 zpool. Although, at the moment I'm not sure. Currently, I have 3 volume groups in my array with 4 disk each (total 12 disks). These

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert Zpool RAID Types

2006-11-28 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Richard, Originally, my thinking was I'd like drop one member out of a 3 member RAID-Z and turn it into a RAID-1 zpool. Although, at the moment I'm not sure. Currently, I have 3 volume groups in my array with 4 disk each (total 12 disks). These VGs are sliced into 3 volumes each. I then have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Convert Zpool RAID Types

2006-11-28 Thread Richard Elling
Jason J. W. Williams wrote: Is it possible to non-destructively change RAID types in zpool while the data remains on-line? Yes. With constraints, however. What exactly are you trying to do? -- richard ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@openso

[zfs-discuss] Convert Zpool RAID Types

2006-11-28 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hello, Is it possible to non-destructively change RAID types in zpool while the data remains on-line? -J ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss