Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance issues ZFS / CIFS on home file server

2008-06-19 Thread Chris Ekkelenkamp
The Realtek chipset I was using was RTL8111B on an Asus P5B, which is the same "family" as yours, so I don't think you can rule out the network. Give the gani driver a shot. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance issues ZFS / CIFS on home file server

2008-06-19 Thread vijay Rajah
Yes I saw somewhere in the forums about this. do you know what chipset was it?. Mine is RTL8111/8168B. As i said in my previous post I'm getting ~85 Mb/s. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance issues ZFS / CIFS on home file server

2008-06-19 Thread vijay Rajah
Yes i tried using iperf. I'm getting ~85 Mb/sec. That rules out network as suspect. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance issues ZFS / CIFS on home file server

2008-06-19 Thread Chris Ekkelenkamp
I've had issues with the rge driver. Write TO the zfs box was good, but read FROM was terrible. Granted, this was likely a different Realtek chipset as mine was gigabit, but it could be having the same issue. Try the gani driver (use Google to find). Cheers, Chris This message posted fro

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting inodeno for zfs from vnode in vfs kernel layer

2008-06-19 Thread shri
i have valid vnode , got after create and it has valid fields such as type,zfsvfsp etc. and i do get znode pointer by doing VTOZ. i need inode for my application . This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@open

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool iostat

2008-06-19 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Anil Jangity wrote: > I plan to have 3 disks and am debating what I should do with them, if I > should do a > raidz (single or double parity) or just a mirror. > > With the # of reads below, I don't see any reason why I should consider > that. I would like to > proceed with do

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance issues ZFS / CIFS on home file server

2008-06-19 Thread Darren J Moffat
vijay Rajah wrote: > I'm setting up a home file server on opensolaris b86 > My system is running with AMD Athlon 4400+, 1GB ram, rge 100Mb/s ethernet > > I'm able to create the CIFS shares and able to access the data from my > windows laptop. Now, when i try to stream some HD video the performac

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool iostat

2008-06-19 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Brian, Thursday, June 19, 2008, 3:44:01 AM, you wrote: BH> A three-way mirror and three disks in a double parity array are going to get you BH> the same usable space. They are going to get you the same level of redundancy. BH> The only difference is that the RAIDZ2 is going to consume a

[zfs-discuss] Questions from a top cust interested in ZFS

2008-06-19 Thread Mickae?l ABISROR
> Hi all, > > here are some questions about ZFS asked by a top customer > > > When accessing to RAW volumes under ZFS do we go through cache or not? > If yes can we disable it? > They use Veritas QuickIO (ODM) and they want to compare with ZFS and > also ZFS with and without cache. > > Do we have