Re: Extending your zfs pool with multiple devices

2010-09-03 Thread perryh
Michal wrote: > What is really odd is I see your replies but not my original post, > how very strange?? One of your subscription options is whether you get your own posts back. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: Extending your zfs pool with multiple devices

2010-09-03 Thread jhell
On 09/03/2010 04:25, Michal wrote: > What is really odd is I see your replies but not my original post, how > very strange?? > > Thank you for all of your assistance. I would like to move to being able > to build a cheap san-like storage area for a DB, I don't know how well > it would work but I'd

Re: Extending your zfs pool with multiple devices

2010-09-03 Thread Michal
What is really odd is I see your replies but not my original post, how very strange?? Thank you for all of your assistance. I would like to move to being able to build a cheap san-like storage area for a DB, I don't know how well it would work but I'd like to try it anyway since things like HP

Re: Extending your zfs pool with multiple devices

2010-09-03 Thread Don Lewis
On 2 Sep, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 04:56:04PM -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >> [regarding getting more disks in a machine] >> An inexpensive option are SATA port replicators. Think SATA switch or >> hub. 1:4 is common and cheap. >> >> I have a motherboard with intel I

Re: Extending your zfs pool with multiple devices

2010-09-02 Thread Edho P Arief
geom_gate - ggated(8) Not going to be fast though (sorry for bad reply, mobile gmail sucks) -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Extending your zfs pool with multiple devices

2010-09-02 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 04:56:04PM -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >> With 1.5T disks, I find that the 4 to 1 multipliers have a small >> effect on speed.  The 4 drives I have on the multipler are saturated >> at 100% a little bit more tha

Re: Extending your zfs pool with multiple devices

2010-09-02 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 04:56:04PM -0400, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > [regarding getting more disks in a machine] > > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote: > > You need an HP SAS expander card in the new box, and an HBA in your primary > > box with external ports to hook it into. > >

Re: Extending your zfs pool with multiple devices

2010-09-02 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
[regarding getting more disks in a machine] On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Joshua Boyd wrote: > You need an HP SAS expander card in the new box, and an HBA in your primary > box with external ports to hook it into. > > Then the drives in the other box will show up as local drives on your > prim

Re: Extending your zfs pool with multiple devices

2010-09-02 Thread Joshua Boyd
You need an HP SAS expander card in the new box, and an HBA in your primary box with external ports to hook it into. Then the drives in the other box will show up as local drives on your primary box. You don't even need an operating system on the second box, it just needs enough hardware in it to

Extending your zfs pool with multiple devices

2010-09-02 Thread Michal
I have a small problem that I am trying to work out a solution for. Imagine you create a NAS box. Fill a small server with 5 hard drives, zfs them with raidz or whatever, create your pools and then shear this to the network using samba. Simple NAS box for your network to put their files and the