Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formula raidz storage space caclulation

2014-04-08 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2014-04-08 19:46, Timothy Coalson wrote: (I am sometimes confused by "b" vs. "B" in such decimal vs. binary notations, so maybe that should have been written another way around) Sorry, this is off topic, but this bothers me a little: "b" means bit, not 1024-flavored SI (as in 6Gbps SATA).

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [vbox guests] two installs different results

2014-04-08 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2014-04-08 19:32, Harry Putnam wrote: For example; if I click on the terminal icon on top of display (there by default) the terminal opens but is stuck to top left corner. It seems that you use different window managers to manage the sessions, OI by default offers two - a GNOME desktop with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formula raidz storage space caclulation

2014-04-08 Thread Timothy Coalson
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:03 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: > > 1024 vs 1000 is another way around: a 3TB disk is > 3 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 2.72Tb or > 3 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 = 2793.97Gb > > Times 9, and that amounts to 24.55Tb or 25145.7Gb > > (I am sometimes confused by

[OpenIndiana-discuss] [vbox guests] two installs different results

2014-04-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Running oi 151_1_9 as guest in a vbox vm on windows 7 Something odd happened when I installed a second vm guest of oi. I used the same iso from 151_a8 and then updated. The overridding vbox settings are the same... except for number of hdd. So same ram, same video ram, bridged ethernet... etc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formula raidz storage space caclulation

2014-04-08 Thread Randy S
Thanks! Couldn't have been explained any clearer. > Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 18:03:37 +0200 > From: jimkli...@cos.ru > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formula raidz storage space caclulation > > On 2014-04-08 17:05, Randy S wrote: > > Hi, > > > > yes eve

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formula raidz storage space caclulation

2014-04-08 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2014-04-08 17:05, Randy S wrote: Hi, yes even if you incorporate the kilo=1024 example: I filled in the example below on the site: RAID Mode: z1 Disk Size: 3 tb Quantity of Disks: 10 RAID-Z *Raw Storage: 30.0 TB / 3.0 GB *Usable Storage: 24.6 TB / 25145.7 GB RAID-Z uses one disk for Pari

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formula raidz storage space caclulation

2014-04-08 Thread PÁSZTOR György
Hi, "Randy S" írta 2014-04-08 17:05-kor: > RAID-Z > *Raw Storage: 30.0 TB / 3.0 GB > *Usable Storage: 24.6 TB / 25145.7 GB > RAID-Z uses one disk for Parity much like RAID5 and requires at least three > drives to be used. > *Usable storage is the actual post-format amount where kilo = 1024

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formula raidz storage space caclulation

2014-04-08 Thread Peter Tribble
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Randy S wrote: > Hi, > > yes even if you incorporate the kilo=1024 > example: > I filled in the example below on the site: > RAID Mode: z1 > Disk Size: 3 tb > Quantity of Disks: 10 > > RAID-Z > *Raw Storage: 30.0 TB / 3.0 GB > *Usable Storage: 24.6 TB / 25145.7

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formula raidz storage space caclulation

2014-04-08 Thread Randy S
Hi, yes even if you incorporate the kilo=1024 example: I filled in the example below on the site: RAID Mode: z1 Disk Size: 3 tb Quantity of Disks: 10 RAID-Z *Raw Storage: 30.0 TB / 3.0 GB *Usable Storage: 24.6 TB / 25145.7 GB RAID-Z uses one disk for Parity much like RAID5 and requires at l

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Formula raidz storage space caclulation

2014-04-08 Thread PÁSZTOR György
Hi, "Randy S" írta 2014-04-08 16:16-kor: > The information that I have about the formula to use is (n-1) x storage space > per disk > n=number of disks > 1=is de disk used for parity in a raidz1 configuration. > In the case of Raidz2 , this number would be 2 (n-2) x space. > > My question is:

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Formula raidz storage space caclulation

2014-04-08 Thread Randy S
The information that I have about the formula to use is (n-1) x storage space per disk n=number of disks 1=is de disk used for parity in a raidz1 configuration. In the case of Raidz2 , this number would be 2 (n-2) x space. My question is: is this formula correct? Reason, my outcome always differ