Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-20 Thread Richard Elling
comment below… On Apr 18, 2013, at 5:17 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: >> From: Timothy Coalson [mailto:tsc...@mst.edu] >> >> Did you also compare the probability of bit errors causing data loss >> without a complete pool failure? 2-way mirrors, when one device >> completely >> di

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] vdev reliability was: Recommendations for fast storage

2013-04-20 Thread Richard Elling
Terminology warning below… On Apr 18, 2013, at 3:46 AM, Sebastian Gabler wrote: > Am 18.04.2013 03:09, schrieb openindiana-discuss-requ...@openindiana.org: >> Message: 1 >> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:21:08 -0600 >> From: Jan Owoc >> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana >> >> Subject: Re: [Op

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] building a new box soon- HDD concerns and recommendations for virtual serving

2013-04-20 Thread Carl Brewer
On 19/04/2013 11:29 AM, Carl Brewer wrote: On 18/04/2013 11:08 AM, Jay Heyl wrote: One thing I would recommend is trying to use the ashift=12 setting to force the use of 4k blocks. I ran into problems because my initial pools were created with 512-byte blocks. When I bought some spare drives I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 33, Issue 36

2013-04-20 Thread Justin Warwick
Thanks very much for your replies, gentlemen. zdb -l indeed shows the disk to be in a pool "rpool" with c2d0, which led me to realize I had made mistake: I was looking at the wrong disk. Some background information: initial configuration was two pools: "rpool" and "media", each a simple two disk m