Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs sata mirror slower than single disk

2012-07-17 Thread Michael Hase
sorry to insist, but still no real answer... On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Michael Hase wrote: So only one thing left: mirror should read 2x I don't think that mirror should necessarily read 2x faster even though the potential is there to do so. Last I

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs sata mirror slower than single disk

2012-07-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Michael Hase wrote: If you were to add a second vdev (i.e. stripe) then you should see very close to 200% due to the default round-robin scheduling of the writes. My expectation would be 200%, as 4 disks are involved. It may not be the perfect 4x scaling, but imho it

[zfs-discuss] Problem: Disconnected command timeout for Target X

2012-07-17 Thread Roberto Scudeller
Hi all, I'm using Opensolaris snv_134 with LSI Controllers and a motherboard supermicro, with 20 sata disks, zfs in raid-10 conf. I mounted this zfs_storage with NFS. I'm not opensolaris specialist. What're the commands to show hardware information? Like 'lshw' in linux but for opensolaris. The

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem: Disconnected command timeout for Target X

2012-07-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Roberto Scudeller wrote: Hi all, I'm using Opensolaris snv_134 with LSI Controllers and a motherboard supermicro, with 20 sata disks, zfs in raid-10 conf. I mounted this zfs_storage with NFS. I'm not opensolaris specialist. What're the commands to show hardware

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs sata mirror slower than single disk

2012-07-17 Thread Michael Hase
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Michael Hase wrote: If you were to add a second vdev (i.e. stripe) then you should see very close to 200% due to the default round-robin scheduling of the writes. My expectation would be 200%, as 4 disks are involved. It may

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs sata mirror slower than single disk

2012-07-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Michael Hase wrote: The below is with a 2.6 GB test file but with a 26 GB test file (just add another zero to 'count' and wait longer) I see an initial read rate of 618 MB/s and a re-read rate of 8.2 GB/s. The raw disk can transfer 150 MB/s. To work around these

[zfs-discuss] Largest zpool / Most Vdevs

2012-07-17 Thread Matt Hardy
While I'm aware of the published maximums of zfs, I was wondering if anyone could share information on the largest zpool (both total usable capacity and vdevs) they've seen/deployed? I know that generally speaking more vdevs = more iops, but I would think that there is a point of diminishing

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs sata mirror slower than single disk

2012-07-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Michael Hase wrote: To work around these caching effects just use a file 2 times the size of ram, iostat then shows the numbers really coming from disk. I always test like this. a re-read rate of 8.2 GB/s is really just memory bandwidth, but quite impressive ;-) Ok,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem: Disconnected command timeout for Target X

2012-07-17 Thread Roberto Scudeller
Hi Bob, Thanks for the answers. How do I test your theory? In this case, I use common disks SATA 2, not Nearline SAS (NL SATA) or SAS. Do you think the disks SATA are the problem? Cheers, 2012/7/17 Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Roberto Scudeller wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problem: Disconnected command timeout for Target X

2012-07-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Roberto Scudeller wrote: Hi Bob, Thanks for the answers. How do I test your theory? I would use 'dd' to see if it is possible to transfer data from one of the problem devices. Gain physical access to the system and check the signal and power cables to these devices

[zfs-discuss] Has anyone switched from IR - IT firmware on the fly ? (existing zpool on LSI 9211-8i)

2012-07-17 Thread Jason Usher
We have a running zpool with a 12 disk raidz3 vdev in it ... we gave ZFS the full, raw disks ... all is well. However, we built it on two LSI 9211-8i cards and we forgot to change from IR firmware to IT firmware. Is there any danger in shutting down the OS, flashing the cards to IT firmware,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone switched from IR - IT firmware on the fly ? (existing zpool on LSI 9211-8i)

2012-07-17 Thread Damon Pollard
Hi Jason, I have done this in the past. (3x LSI 1068E - IBM BR10i). Your pool has no tie with the hardware used to host it (including your HBA). You could change all your hardware, and still import your pool correctly. If you really want to be on the safe side; you can export your pool before

Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone switched from IR - IT firmware on the fly ? (existing zpool on LSI 9211-8i)

2012-07-17 Thread Jason Usher
Ok, and your LSI 1068E also had alternate IR and IT firmwares, and you went from IR - IT ? Is that correct ? Thanks. --- On Tue, 7/17/12, Damon Pollard damon.poll...@birchmangroup.com wrote: From: Damon Pollard damon.poll...@birchmangroup.com Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone switched

Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone switched from IR - IT firmware on the fly ? (existing zpool on LSI 9211-8i)

2012-07-17 Thread Damon Pollard
Correct. LSI 1068E has IR and IT firmwares + I have gone from IR - IT and IT - IR without hassle. Damon Pollard On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Jason Usher jushe...@yahoo.com wrote: Ok, and your LSI 1068E also had alternate IR and IT firmwares, and you went from IR - IT ? Is that