Re: [zfs-discuss] Distribued ZFS

2007-10-21 Thread Jonathan Edwards
On Oct 20, 2007, at 20:23, Vincent Fox wrote: > To my mind ZFS has a serious deficiency for JBOD usage in a high- > availability clustered environment. > > Namely, inability to tie spare drives to a particular storage group. > > Example in clustering HA setups you would would want 2 SAS JBOD >

Re: [zfs-discuss] [Lustre-discuss] ZFS and Lsutre

2007-10-21 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Oct 21, 2007 22:14 +0300, Mertol Ozyoney wrote: > I noticed that Lustre OSS can be set up on ZFS file systems. > > http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Lustre_OSS/MDS_with_ZFS_DMU > > Is there anyone out there who can share their experiance with me ? This is purely for basic testing (very

[zfs-discuss] Parallel zfs destroy results in No more processes

2007-10-21 Thread Stuart Anderson
Running 102 parallel "zfs destroy -r" commands on an X4500 running S10U4 has resulted in "No more processes" errors in existing login shells for several minutes of time, but then fork() calls started working again. However, none of the zfs destroy processes have actually completed yet, which is od

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Lsutre

2007-10-21 Thread Atul Vidwansa
Hi Mertol, The OSS on ZFS is in development phase and the page you mentioned refers to early version (alpha) of the code. If you need more information, please let us know. Cheers, -Atul On 10/22/07, Mertol Ozyoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I noticed that Lustre OSS can be set u

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and Lsutre

2007-10-21 Thread Mertol Ozyoney
Hi; I noticed that Lustre OSS can be set up on ZFS file systems. http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php?title=Lustre_OSS/MDS_with_ZFS_DMU Is there anyone out there who can share their experiance with me ? regards http://www.sun.com/emrkt/sigs/6g_top.gif

[zfs-discuss] ZFS mirroring

2007-10-21 Thread Mertol Ozyoney
Hi; Do any of you know when ZFS remote mirroring will be available ? regards http://www.sun.com/emrkt/sigs/6g_top.gif Mertol Ozyoney Storage Practice - Sales Manager Sun Microsystems, TR Istanbul TR Phone +902123352200 Mobile +905339310752 Fax +90212335 E

[zfs-discuss] random or sequantial writes and Jbot redundany

2007-10-21 Thread Mertol Ozyoney
Hi all; Optimizing the array controller to random or sequantial controller depends on your read/write ratio. ZFS have the ability to combine random writes to a sequantial write. However eads stilll be random. And for Jbod redundany I have a few comments 1) You can do three way mi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Distribued ZFS

2007-10-21 Thread Vincent Fox
In our data center on CRITICAL systems we plan to survive chains of several single-type failures. The HA standards we apply to a mail-server for 30,000 people are neccessarily quite high. A fully redundant 2-node failover clustered system can survive failures of half or more of it's systems and