Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: please remove my ignorance of raiding and mirroring

2006-09-30 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Anton B. Rang wrote: This is a difference from RAID-5. In RAID-5, small reads are more efficient than mirroring because there are more disk spindles available, and a small read usually uses only one. Small writes are less efficient than mirroring in RAID-5 because they require a pre-read phase

Re: [zfs-discuss] jbod questions

2006-09-30 Thread Randy Bias
On Sep 30, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Torrey McMahon wrote:What about the case of an iSCSI LUN?  Does this change?  I get that while local to the system a read from a mirror versus a RAIDZ pool is desirable, but would an IP network introduce enough latency that the difference is negligible?  And wouldn't I

Re: [zfs-discuss] jbod questions

2006-09-30 Thread Torrey McMahon
Randy Bias wrote: On Sep 29, 2006, at 6:24 AM, Roch wrote: Keith Clay writes: On Sep 29, 2006, at 2:41 AM, Roch wrote: IMO, RAIDZn should perform admirably on the write loads. The random reads aspects is more limited. The simple rule of thumb is to consider that a RAIDZ group will deliver ran

RE: [zfs-discuss] Re: Fastest way to send 100gb ( with ZFS send )

2006-09-30 Thread Luke Lonergan
Opteron 280 or 275 with blowfish cipher does 33MB/s, default (DES?) cipher does 25MB/s. - Luke Msg is shrt cuz m on ma treo -Original Message- From: Anantha N. Srirama [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2006 12:34 PM Eastern Standard Time To: zfs-discuss@op

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Fastest way to send 100gb ( with ZFS send )

2006-09-30 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Anantha N. Srirama wrote: You're most certainly are hitting the SSH limitation. Note that SSH/SCP sessions are single threaded and won't utilize all of the system resources even if they are available. You may want to try 'ssh -c blowfish' to use the (faster) blowfish encryption algorithm rathe

[zfs-discuss] Re: Fastest way to send 100gb ( with ZFS send )

2006-09-30 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
You're most certainly are hitting the SSH limitation. Note that SSH/SCP sessions are single threaded and won't utilize all of the system resources even if they are available. Around 4 months back I was doing some testing between 2 fully configured T2000s connected using crossover cables and fig