Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-11 Thread Philippe Schwarz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 09/07/2010 01:37, Edward Ned Harvey a écrit : From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Schwarz . But if you're impressed with performance by enabling writeback, you can still

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-11 Thread Erik Trimble
On 7/11/2010 3:21 AM, Philippe Schwarz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, i bought a little SSD (OCZ Agility 30GB) and added half to L2ARC and second half to ZIL: zpool add zfsda1 log da3s2 zpool add zfsda1 cache da3s1 zpool status pool: zfsda1 state: ONLINE

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010, Philippe Schwarz wrote: But, at the end of the copy process (copy a 1GB file from to the same pool), the used capacity of the ZIL remains unchanged... Puzzling.. - - And ,last but not least... the copy isn't faster at all! Note that the slog device is only used for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-10 Thread Graham McArdle
Instead, create Single Disk arrays for each disk. I have a question related to this but with a different controller: If I'm using a RAID controller to provide non-RAID single-disk volumes, do I still lose out on the hardware-independence advantage of software RAID that I would get from a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-10 Thread Erik Trimble
On 7/10/2010 1:14 AM, Graham McArdle wrote: Instead, create Single Disk arrays for each disk. I have a question related to this but with a different controller: If I'm using a RAID controller to provide non-RAID single-disk volumes, do I still lose out on the hardware-independence

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-10 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 10, 2010, at 5:46 AM, Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.com wrote: On 7/10/2010 1:14 AM, Graham McArdle wrote: Instead, create Single Disk arrays for each disk. I have a question related to this but with a different controller: If I'm using a RAID controller to provide non-RAID

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-09 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 8, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Schwarz 3Ware cards Any drawback (except that without BBU, i've got a pb in case of power loss) in enabling the WC with ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-08 Thread Garrett D'Amore
You want the write cache enabled, for sure, with ZFS. ZFS will do the right thing about ensuring write cache is flushed when needed. For the case of a single JBOD, I don't find it surprising that UFS beats ZFS. ZFS is designed for more complex configurations, and provides much better data

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-08 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Philippe Schwarz p...@schwarz-fr.net wrote: With dual-Xeon, 4GB of Ram (will be 8GB in a couple of weeks), two PCI-X 3Ware cards 7 Sata disks (750G 1T) over FreeBSD 8.0 (But i think it's OS independant), i made some tests. The disks are exported as JBOD, but i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-08 Thread Philippe Schwarz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 08/07/2010 18:52, Freddie Cash a écrit : On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Philippe Schwarz p...@schwarz-fr.net wrote: With dual-Xeon, 4GB of Ram (will be 8GB in a couple of weeks), two PCI-X 3Ware cards 7 Sata disks (750G 1T) over FreeBSD 8.0

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-08 Thread Ragnar Sundblad
On 8 jul 2010, at 17.23, Garrett D'Amore wrote: You want the write cache enabled, for sure, with ZFS. ZFS will do the right thing about ensuring write cache is flushed when needed. That is not for sure at all, it all depends on what the right thing is, which depends on the application and/or

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-08 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 00:23 +0200, Ragnar Sundblad wrote: On 8 jul 2010, at 17.23, Garrett D'Amore wrote: You want the write cache enabled, for sure, with ZFS. ZFS will do the right thing about ensuring write cache is flushed when needed. That is not for sure at all, it all depends on

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Schwarz 3Ware cards Any drawback (except that without BBU, i've got a pb in case of power loss) in enabling the WC with ZFS ? If you don't have a BBU, and you care about your