Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz1 and traditional raid 5 perfomrance comparision

2010-07-25 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 23, 2010, at 10:14 PM, Edward Ned Harvey sh...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: Arne Jansen [mailto:sensi...@gmx.net] Can anyone else confirm or deny the correctness of this statement? As I understand it that's the whole point of raidz. Each block is its own stripe. Nope, that

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz1 and traditional raid 5 perfomrance comparision

2010-07-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Robert Milkowski [mailto:mi...@task.gda.pl] [In raidz] The issue is that each zfs filesystem block is basically spread across n-1 devices. So every time you want to read back a single fs block you need to wait for all n-1 devices to provide you with a part of it - and keep in mind

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz1 and traditional raid 5 perfomrance comparision

2010-07-23 Thread Arne Jansen
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: Robert Milkowski [mailto:mi...@task.gda.pl] [In raidz] The issue is that each zfs filesystem block is basically spread across n-1 devices. So every time you want to read back a single fs block you need to wait for all n-1 devices to provide you with a part of it

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz1 and traditional raid 5 perfomrance comparision

2010-07-23 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: Arne Jansen [mailto:sensi...@gmx.net] Can anyone else confirm or deny the correctness of this statement? As I understand it that's the whole point of raidz. Each block is its own stripe. Nope, that doesn't count for confirmation. It is at least theoretically possible to

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz1 and traditional raid 5 perfomrance comparision

2010-07-22 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Robert Milkowski I had a quick look at your results a moment ago. The problem is that you used a server with 4GB of RAM + a raid card with a 256MB of cache. Then your filesize for iozone

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz1 and traditional raid 5 perfomrance comparision

2010-07-22 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 22/07/2010 03:25, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Robert Milkowski I had a quick look at your results a moment ago. The problem is that you used a server with 4GB of RAM + a raid card

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz1 and traditional raid 5 perfomrance comparision

2010-07-21 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of v for zfs raidz1, I know for random io, iops of a raidz1 vdev eqaul to one physical disk iops, since raidz1 is like raid5 , so is raid5 has same performance like raidz1? ie. random iops

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz1 and traditional raid 5 perfomrance comparision

2010-07-21 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 21/07/2010 15:40, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of v for zfs raidz1, I know for random io, iops of a raidz1 vdev eqaul to one physical disk iops, since raidz1 is like raid5 , so is raid5 has same

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz1 and traditional raid 5 perfomrance comparision

2010-07-21 Thread Ulrich Graef
There is a common misconception about the comparison between mirror and raidz. You get the same performance, when you use the same number of disks. But the resulting filesystem has a different sizre, therefore a comparison is not applicable. Example: you have 8 disks Compare a zpool with

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz1 and traditional raid 5 perfomrance comparision

2010-07-20 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- Original Message - Hi, for zfs raidz1, I know for random io, iops of a raidz1 vdev eqaul to one physical disk iops, since raidz1 is like raid5 , so is raid5 has same performance like raidz1? ie. random iops equal to one physical disk's ipos. Mostly, yes. Traditionl RAID-5 is likely

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz1 and traditional raid 5 perfomrance comparision

2010-07-20 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 20, 2010, at 6:12 AM, v victor_zh...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, for zfs raidz1, I know for random io, iops of a raidz1 vdev eqaul to one physical disk iops, since raidz1 is like raid5 , so is raid5 has same performance like raidz1? ie. random iops equal to one physical disk's ipos. On

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz1 and traditional raid 5 perfomrance comparision

2010-07-20 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- Original Message - On Jul 20, 2010, at 6:12 AM, v victor_zh...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, for zfs raidz1, I know for random io, iops of a raidz1 vdev eqaul to one physical disk iops, since raidz1 is like raid5 , so is raid5 has same performance like raidz1? ie. random iops equal

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs raidz1 and traditional raid 5 perfomrance comparision

2010-07-20 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 20, 2010, at 3:46 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: - Original Message - Hi, for zfs raidz1, I know for random io, iops of a raidz1 vdev eqaul to one physical disk iops, since raidz1 is like raid5 , so is raid5 has same performance like raidz1? ie. random iops equal to one