Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz on top of hardware raid0

2011-08-30 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:40:34PM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 08:44:13AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: I'm getting a but tired of people designing for fast resilvering. It is a design consideration, regardless, though your point is valid that it shouldn't be

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz on top of hardware raid0

2011-08-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Carosone On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 08:44:13AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: I'm getting a but tired of people designing for fast resilvering. It is a design consideration, regardless,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz on top of hardware raid0

2011-08-28 Thread Richard Elling
On Aug 26, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Tom Tang thomps...@supermicro.com wrote: Suppose I want to build a 100-drive storage system, wondering if there is any disadvantages for me to setup 20 arrays of HW RAID0 (5 drives each), then

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz on top of hardware raid0

2011-08-28 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 08:44:13AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: I'm getting a but tired of people designing for fast resilvering. It is a design consideration, regardless, though your point is valid that it shouldn't be the overriding consideration. To the original question and poster: This

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz on top of hardware raid0

2011-08-26 Thread Brandon High
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Tom Tang thomps...@supermicro.com wrote: Suppose I want to build a 100-drive storage system, wondering if there is any disadvantages for me to setup 20 arrays of HW RAID0 (5 drives each), then setup ZFS file system on these 20 virtual drives and configure them

[zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz on top of hardware raid0

2011-08-15 Thread Tom Tang
Suppose I want to build a 100-drive storage system, wondering if there is any disadvantages for me to setup 20 arrays of HW RAID0 (5 drives each), then setup ZFS file system on these 20 virtual drives and configure them as RAIDZ? I understand people always say ZFS doesn't prefer HW RAID. Under

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz on top of hardware raid0

2011-08-15 Thread Cindy Swearingen
D'oh. I shouldn't answer questions first thing Monday morning. I think you test this configuration with and without the underlying hardware RAID. If RAIDZ is the right redundancy level for your workload, you might be pleasantly surprised with a RAIDZ configuration built on the h/w raid array in

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz on top of hardware raid0

2011-08-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Tom Tang wrote: Suppose I want to build a 100-drive storage system, wondering if there is any disadvantages for me to setup 20 arrays of HW RAID0 (5 drives each), then setup ZFS file system on these 20 virtual drives and configure them as RAIDZ? The main concern would

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raidz on top of hardware raid0

2011-08-15 Thread LaoTsao
imho, not a good idea, any two hdd in your raid0 fail zpool is dead if possible just do one hdd raid0 then use zfs to do mirror raidz or raidz2 will be the last choice Sent from my iPad Hung-Sheng Tsao ( LaoTsao) Ph.D On Aug 12, 2011, at 21:34, Tom Tang thomps...@supermicro.com wrote: Suppose