Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + ISCSI + LINUX QUESTIONS

2007-06-05 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 13:27 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: What errors and error rates have you seen? I have seen switches flip bits in NFS traffic such that the TCP checksum still match yet the data was corrupted. One of the ways we saw this was when files were being checked out of

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + ISCSI + LINUX QUESTIONS

2007-05-31 Thread David Anderson
Nathan, Keep in mind iSCSI target is only in OpenSolaris at this time. On 05/30/2007 10:15 PM, Nathan Huisman wrote: snip = QUESTION #1 What is the best way to mirror two zfs pools in order to achieve a sort of HA storage system? I don't want to have to physically swap my disks into

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + ISCSI + LINUX QUESTIONS

2007-05-31 Thread Al Hopper
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Darren J Moffat wrote: Since you are doing iSCSI and may not be running ZFS on the initiator (client) then I highly recommend that you run with IPsec using at least AH (or ESP with Authentication) to protect the transport. Don't assume that your network is reliable. ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + ISCSI + LINUX QUESTIONS

2007-05-31 Thread Darren J Moffat
Al Hopper wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2007, Darren J Moffat wrote: Since you are doing iSCSI and may not be running ZFS on the initiator (client) then I highly recommend that you run with IPsec using at least AH (or ESP with Authentication) to protect the transport. Don't assume that your network

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + ISCSI + LINUX QUESTIONS

2007-05-31 Thread Matty
On 5/31/07, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you are doing iSCSI and may not be running ZFS on the initiator (client) then I highly recommend that you run with IPsec using at least AH (or ESP with Authentication) to protect the transport. Don't assume that your network is

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + ISCSI + LINUX QUESTIONS

2007-05-31 Thread Michael Li
Al Hopper 提到: On Thu, 31 May 2007, David Anderson wrote: snip . Other: -Others have reported that Sil3124 based SATA expansion cards work well with Solaris. [Sorry - don't mean to hijack this interesting thread] I believe that there is a serious bug with the si3124 driver that

[zfs-discuss] ZFS + ISCSI + LINUX QUESTIONS

2007-05-30 Thread Nathan Huisman
= PROBLEM To create a disk storage system that will act as an archive point for user data (Non-recoverable data), and also act as a back end storage unit for virtual machines at a block level. = BUDGET Currently I have about 25-30k to start the project, more could be allocated in the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + ISCSI + LINUX QUESTIONS

2007-05-30 Thread Dale Ghent
On May 31, 2007, at 12:15 AM, Nathan Huisman wrote: = PROBLEM To create a disk storage system that will act as an archive point for user data (Non-recoverable data), and also act as a back end storage unit for virtual machines at a block level. snip Here are some tips from me. I notice

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + ISCSI + LINUX QUESTIONS

2007-05-30 Thread Will Murnane
Questions I don't know answers to are omitted. I am but a nestling. On 5/31/07, Nathan Huisman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = STORAGE REQUIREMENTS 5-10tb of redundant fairly high speed storage What does high speed mean? How many users are there for this system? Are they accessing it via

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + ISCSI + LINUX QUESTIONS

2007-05-30 Thread Sanjeev Bagewadi
Nathan, Some answers inline... Nathan Huisman wrote: = PROBLEM To create a disk storage system that will act as an archive point for user data (Non-recoverable data), and also act as a back end storage unit for virtual machines at a block level. = BUDGET Currently I have about