[zfs-discuss] mixing WD20EFRX and WD2002FYPS in one pool

2012-11-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
Hi, after a flaky 8-drive Linux RAID10 just shredded about 2 TByte worth of my data at home (conveniently just before I could make a backup) I've decided to both go full redundancy as well as all zfs at home. A couple questions: is there a way to make WD20EFRX (2 TByte, 4k sectors) and WD200FYPS

Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol wrapped in a vmdk by Virtual Box and double writes?

2012-11-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov > > As for ZIL - even if it is used with the in-pool variant, I don't > think your setup needs any extra steps to disable it (as Edward likes > to suggest), and most other setups don

Re: [zfs-discuss] mixing WD20EFRX and WD2002FYPS in one pool

2012-11-21 Thread Jan Owoc
HI Eugen, On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Secondly, has anyone managed to run OpenIndiana on an AMD E-350 > (MSI E350DM-E33)? If it doesn't work, my only options would > be all-in-one with ESXi, FreeNAS, or zfs on Linux. I'm currently running OI 151a7 on an AMD E-350 syste

Re: [zfs-discuss] mixing WD20EFRX and WD2002FYPS in one pool

2012-11-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 08:31:23AM -0700, Jan Owoc wrote: > HI Eugen, > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > Secondly, has anyone managed to run OpenIndiana on an AMD E-350 > > (MSI E350DM-E33)? If it doesn't work, my only options would > > be all-in-one with ESXi, FreeNAS

Re: [zfs-discuss] mixing WD20EFRX and WD2002FYPS in one pool

2012-11-21 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-21 16:45, Eugen Leitl wrote: Thanks, this is great to know. The box will be headless, and run in text-only mode. I have an Intel NIC in there, and don't intend to use the Realtek port for anything serious. My laptop based on AMD E2 VISION integrated CPU and Realtek Gigabit had interm

Re: [zfs-discuss] mixing WD20EFRX and WD2002FYPS in one pool

2012-11-21 Thread Timothy Coalson
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > A couple questions: is there a way to make WD20EFRX (2 TByte, 4k > sectors) and WD200FYPS (4k internally, reported as 512 Bytes?) > work well together on a current OpenIndiana? Which parameters > need I give the zfs pool in regards to alignmen

Re: [zfs-discuss] mixing WD20EFRX and WD2002FYPS in one pool

2012-11-21 Thread Timothy Coalson
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > >> A couple questions: is there a way to make WD20EFRX (2 TByte, 4k >> sectors) and WD200FYPS (4k internally, reported as 512 Bytes?) >> work well together on a current OpenIndiana? Wh

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel DC S3700

2012-11-21 Thread Ian Collins
On 11/14/12 12:28, Jim Klimov wrote: On 2012-11-13 22:56, Mauricio Tavares wrote: Trying again: Intel just released those drives. Any thoughts on how nicely they will play in a zfs/hardware raid setup? Seems interesting - fast, assumed reliable and consistent in its IOPS (according to marketin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel DC S3700

2012-11-21 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2012-11-21 21:55, Ian Collins wrote: I can't help thinking these drives would be overkill for an ARC device. All of the expensive controller hardware is geared to boosting random write IOPs, which somewhat wasted on a write slowly, read often device. The enhancements would be good for a ZIL, b

[zfs-discuss] Woeful performance from an iSCSI pool

2012-11-21 Thread Ian Collins
I look after a remote server that has two iSCSI pools. The volumes for each pool are sparse volumes and a while back the target's storage became full, causing weird and wonderful corruption issues until they manges to free some space. Since then, one pool has been reasonably OK, but the other

[zfs-discuss] Changing a VDEV GUID?

2012-11-21 Thread Thomas Gouverneur
Hi ZFS fellows, I already seen on the archive of the list some of you doing some GUID change of a pool's VDEV, to allow a cloned disk to be imported on the same system as the source. Can someone explain in detail how to achieve that? Has already someone invented the wheel so I would not have to r

Re: [zfs-discuss] Woeful performance from an iSCSI pool

2012-11-21 Thread Ian Collins
On 11/22/12 10:15, Ian Collins wrote: I look after a remote server that has two iSCSI pools. The volumes for each pool are sparse volumes and a while back the target's storage became full, causing weird and wonderful corruption issues until they manges to free some space. Since then, one pool h