Hi Jeremy,
Thanks for the very helpful response!
I added all debugging options that you specified to my kernel and
rebuilt; then set the kernel parameters as you mention (I was being a
bit lazy earlier when I called them sysctls; I always tuned them in
loader.conf; just that you can view t
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:27:38AM -0400, Sean Thomas Caron wrote:
> I've been playing with ZFS in 8.1-RELEASE (amd64) on a Sun Fire
> X4500 with 16 GB RAM and in general it seems to work well when used
> as recommended.
>
> BUT...
>
> In spite of the suggestion of Sun and FreeBSD developers to t
Ahoy. I just thought I'd add a data point to the mix. I have an
11-disk v13 pool comprised of 400-GB disks on an 8.1 amd64 system and
the machine behaves just fine with it:
# zpool status
pool: archive
state: ONLINE
status: The pool is formatted using an older on-disk format. The pool can
Hi Lawrence,
Interesting; have you tried this for raidz2 as well?
I just created a raidz2 pool with 5 disks and then added another 5
disk raidz2 to it, so, total of 10 disks in the pool (though this is
ultimately a losing strategy unless the number of disks is >> 9
because two drives are l
