Re: [zfs-discuss] Weird drive configuration, how to improve the situation

2010-03-09 Thread Thomas W
Okay... I found the solution to my problem. And it has nothing to do with my hard drives... It was the Realtek NIC drivers. I read about problems and added a new driver (I got that from the forum thread). And now I have about 30MB/s read and 25MB/s write performance. That's enough (for the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Weird drive configuration, how to improve the situation

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas W
Hi, it's me again. First of all, technically slicing the drive worked like it should. I started to experiment and found some issues I don't really understand. My base playground setup: - Intel D945GCLF2, 2GB ram, Opensolaris from EON - 2 Sata Seagates 500GB A normal zpool of the two drives to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Weird drive configuration, how to improve the situation

2010-03-08 Thread Erik Trimble
Thomas W wrote: Hi, it's me again. First of all, technically slicing the drive worked like it should. I started to experiment and found some issues I don't really understand. My base playground setup: - Intel D945GCLF2, 2GB ram, Opensolaris from EON - 2 Sata Seagates 500GB A normal zpool of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Weird drive configuration, how to improve the situation

2010-03-08 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 8, 2010, at 1:00 AM, Thomas W wrote: Hi, it's me again. First of all, technically slicing the drive worked like it should. I started to experiment and found some issues I don't really understand. My base playground setup: - Intel D945GCLF2, 2GB ram, Opensolaris from EON - 2 Sata

[zfs-discuss] Weird drive configuration, how to improve the situation

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas W
Hi! I'm new to ZFS so this may be (or certainly is) a kind of newbie question. I started with a small server I built from parts I had left over. I only had 2 500GB drives and wanted to go for space. So i just created a zpool without any option. That now looks like this. NAME

Re: [zfs-discuss] Weird drive configuration, how to improve the situation

2010-03-02 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 2, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Thomas W wrote: Hi! I'm new to ZFS so this may be (or certainly is) a kind of newbie question. I started with a small server I built from parts I had left over. I only had 2 500GB drives and wanted to go for space. So i just created a zpool without any

Re: [zfs-discuss] Weird drive configuration, how to improve the situation

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas W
Thanks... works perfect! Currently it's resilvering. That is all too easy ;) Thanks again, Thomas -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Weird drive configuration, how to improve the situation

2010-03-02 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Thomas, I see that Richard has suggested mirroring your existing pool by attaching slices from your 1 TB disk if the sizing is right. You mentioned file security and I think you mean protecting your data from hardware failures. Another option is to get one more disk to convert this

Re: [zfs-discuss] Weird drive configuration, how to improve the situation

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Wuerdemann
Hi Cindy, thanks for your advice. I guess this would be the better way to mirror one drive on a physical extra drive but Richards suggetion was fitting my current conditions better. Because I didn't want to buy an extra disk or copy all data back and forth. I just happened to have an extra 1TB