Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD As ARC

2010-03-26 Thread Muhammed Syyid
Which is why I was looking to setup 1x8 raidz2 as pool1 and 1x8 raidz2 as pool2 instead of as two vdevs under 1 pool. That way I can have 'some' flexibility where I could take down pool1 or pool2 without affecting the other. The issue I had was how do I set up an L2ARC for 2 pools (pool1/pool2)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixed ZFS vdev in same pool.

2010-03-26 Thread Erik Trimble
Justin wrote: I have a question about using mixed vdev in the same zpool and what the community opinion is on the matter. Here is my setup: I have four 1TB drives and two 500GB drives. When I first setup ZFS I was under the assumption that it does not really care much on how you add devices

[zfs-discuss] Mixed ZFS vdev in same pool.

2010-03-26 Thread Justin
I have a question about using mixed vdev in the same zpool and what the community opinion is on the matter. Here is my setup: I have four 1TB drives and two 500GB drives. When I first setup ZFS I was under the assumption that it does not really care much on how you add devices to the pool and

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-26 Thread Darren Mackay
For the time being, the EARS series of drives actually present 512 byte sectors to the o/s through emulation in firmware. The drive I tested was WD20EARS (2TB WD Caviar Green Advanced Format drives): MDL: WD20EARS-00S81 DATE: 29 DEC 2009 DCM: HBRNHT2BB DCX: 6019S1W87 LBA: 3907029168 The LBA abo

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Victor Latushkin
On Mar 26, 2010, at 23:37, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: On Fri, March 26, 2010 14:25, Malte Schirmacher wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Except that ZFS does not support RAID0. I don't know why you guys persist with these absurd claims and continue to use wrong and misleading terminology. What

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Richard Elling wrote: > On Mar 26, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Marc Nicholas wrote: > > > Richard, > > > > My challenge to you is that at least three vedors that I know of built > > their storage platforms on FreeBSD. One of them sells $4bn/year of > > product - petty sure t

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: > > OK, so I made progress today. FreeBSD see's all of my drives, ZFS is acting > correct. > > Now for me confusion. > > RAIDz3 > > # zpool create datastore raidz3 da0 da1 da2 da3 da4 da5 da6 da7 > Gives: 'raidz3' no such GEOM providor > > # I

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Slack-Moehrle
OK, so I made progress today. FreeBSD see's all of my drives, ZFS is acting correct. Now for me confusion. RAIDz3 # zpool create datastore raidz3 da0 da1 da2 da3 da4 da5 da6 da7 Gives: 'raidz3' no such GEOM providor # I am looking at the best practices guide and I am confused about adding a h

Re: [zfs-discuss] *SPAM* Re: zfs send/receive - actual performance

2010-03-26 Thread Ian Collins
On 03/27/10 09:39 AM, Richard Elling wrote: On Mar 26, 2010, at 2:34 AM, Bruno Sousa wrote: Hi, The jumbo-frames in my case give me a boost of around 2 mb/s, so it's not that much. That is about right. IIRC, the theoretical max is about 4% improvement, for MTU of 8KB. Now i

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 26, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Marc Nicholas wrote: > Richard, > > My challenge to you is that at least three vedors that I know of built > their storage platforms on FreeBSD. One of them sells $4bn/year of > product - petty sure that eclipses all (Open)Solaris-based storage ;) FreeBSD 8 or FreeB

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS RaidZ to RaidZ2

2010-03-26 Thread Ian Collins
On 03/27/10 11:33 AM, Richard Jahnel wrote: zfs send s...@oldpool | zfs receive newpool In the OP's case, a recursive send is in order. -- Ian. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD As ARC

2010-03-26 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Fri, March 26, 2010 17:26, Muhammed Syyid wrote: > Hi > I'm planning on setting up two RaidZ2 volumes in different pools for added > flexibility in removing / resizing (from what I understand if they were in > the same pool I can't remove them at all). What do you mean "remove"? You cannot re

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Ian Collins
On 03/27/10 11:32 AM, Svein Skogen wrote: On 26.03.2010 23:25, Marc Nicholas wrote: Richard, My challenge to you is that at least three vedors that I know of built their storage platforms on FreeBSD. One of them sells $4bn/year of product - petty sure that eclipses all (Open)Solaris-based s

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS RaidZ to RaidZ2

2010-03-26 Thread Richard Jahnel
zfs send s...@oldpool | zfs receive newpool -- 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] ZFS RaidZ to RaidZ2

2010-03-26 Thread Ian Collins
On 03/27/10 11:22 AM, Muhammed Syyid wrote: Hi I have a couple of questions I currently have a 4disk RaidZ1 setup and want to move to a RaidZ2 4x2TB = RaidZ1 (tank) My current plan is to setup 8x1.5TB in a RAIDZ2 and migrate the data from the tank vdev over. What's the best way to accomplish thi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Svein Skogen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26.03.2010 23:25, Marc Nicholas wrote: > Richard, > > My challenge to you is that at least three vedors that I know of built > their storage platforms on FreeBSD. One of them sells $4bn/year of > product - petty sure that eclipses all (Open)Solaris

[zfs-discuss] SSD As ARC

2010-03-26 Thread Muhammed Syyid
Hi I'm planning on setting up two RaidZ2 volumes in different pools for added flexibility in removing / resizing (from what I understand if they were in the same pool I can't remove them at all). I also have got an SSD drive that I was going to use as Cache (L2ARC). How do I set this up to have

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Marc Nicholas
Richard, My challenge to you is that at least three vedors that I know of built their storage platforms on FreeBSD. One of them sells $4bn/year of product - petty sure that eclipses all (Open)Solaris-based storage ;) -marc On 3/26/10, Richard Elling wrote: > On Mar 26, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Edward

[zfs-discuss] ZFS RaidZ to RaidZ2

2010-03-26 Thread Muhammed Syyid
Hi I have a couple of questions I currently have a 4disk RaidZ1 setup and want to move to a RaidZ2 4x2TB = RaidZ1 (tank) My current plan is to setup 8x1.5TB in a RAIDZ2 and migrate the data from the tank vdev over. What's the best way to accomplish this with minimal disruption? I have seen the zf

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Freddie Cash wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Freddie Cash wrote: Overly-simplified, a ZFS pool is a RAID0 stripeset across all the member vdevs, which can be Except that ZFS does no

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: The question was essentially "Wait, I don't see RAID 10 here, and that's what I like. How do I do that?" I think the answer was responsive and not misleading enough to be dangerous; the differences can be explicated later. Most of us choose a poo

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Malte Schirmacher wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Except that ZFS does not support RAID0. I don't know why you guys persist with these absurd claims and continue to use wrong and misleading terminology. What is the main difference between RAID0 and striping (what zfs real

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hex dump diagrams?

2010-03-26 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi Richard, Richard Elling wrote: On Mar 25, 2010, at 2:45 PM, John Bonomi wrote: I'm sorry if this is not the appropriate place to ask, but I'm a student and for an assignment I need to be able to show at the hex level how files and their attributes are stored and referenced in ZFS. Are

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 26, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> What does everyone thing about that? I bet it is not as mature as on >> OpenSolaris. > > "mature" is not the right term in this case. FreeBSD has been around much > longer than opensolaris, and it's equally if not more mature. Bill Joy mig

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Eric Andersen
It depends a bit on how you set up the drives really. You could make one raidz vdev of 8 drives, losing one of them for parity, or you could make two raidz vdevs of 4 drives each and lose two drives for parity (one for each vdev). You could also do one raidz2 vdev of 8 drives and lose two driv

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hex dump diagrams?

2010-03-26 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 25, 2010, at 2:45 PM, John Bonomi wrote: > I'm sorry if this is not the appropriate place to ask, but I'm a student and > for an assignment I need to be able to show at the hex level how files and > their attributes are stored and referenced in ZFS. Are there any resources > available th

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive - actual performance

2010-03-26 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 26, 2010, at 2:34 AM, Bruno Sousa wrote: > Hi, > > The jumbo-frames in my case give me a boost of around 2 mb/s, so it's not > that much. That is about right. IIRC, the theoretical max is about 4% improvement, for MTU of 8KB. > Now i will play with link aggregation and see how it goes

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Fri, March 26, 2010 14:25, Malte Schirmacher wrote: > Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > >> Except that ZFS does not support RAID0. I don't know why you guys >> persist with these absurd claims and continue to use wrong and >> misleading terminology. > > What is the main difference between RAID0 and str

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Fri, March 26, 2010 14:21, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Freddie Cash wrote: >> >> Overly-simplified, a ZFS pool is a RAID0 stripeset across all the member >> vdevs, which can be > > Except that ZFS does not support RAID0. I don't know why you guys > persist with these absurd c

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS size calculation. Again!

2010-03-26 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 25, 2010, at 7:25 PM, antst wrote: > I have two storages, both on snv133. Both filled with 1TB drives. > 1) stripe over two raidz vdevs, 7 disks in each. In total avalable size is > (7-1)*2=12TB > 2) zfs pool over HW raid, also 12TB. > > Both storages keeps the same data with minor differ

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-26 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 26, 2010, at 8:58 AM, Svein Skogen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 26.03.2010 16:55, Bottone, Frank wrote: >> Does zfs handle 4kb sectors properly or does it always assume 512b sectors? >> >> >> >> If it does, we could manually create a slice properly ali

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Freddie Cash wrote: > >> >> Overly-simplified, a ZFS pool is a RAID0 stripeset across all the member >> vdevs, which can be >> > > Except that ZFS does not support RAID0. Wow, what par

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:25:54PM -0700, Malte Schirmacher wrote: > Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > > Except that ZFS does not support RAID0. I don't know why you guys > > persist with these absurd claims and continue to use wrong and > > misleading terminology. > > What is the main difference betwe

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Malte Schirmacher
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > Except that ZFS does not support RAID0. I don't know why you guys > persist with these absurd claims and continue to use wrong and > misleading terminology. What is the main difference between RAID0 and striping (what zfs really does, i guess?) _

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Freddie Cash wrote: Overly-simplified, a ZFS pool is a RAID0 stripeset across all the member vdevs, which can be Except that ZFS does not support RAID0. I don't know why you guys persist with these absurd claims and continue to use wrong and misleading terminology. W

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Slack-Moehrle
>> Can someone explain in terms of usable space RAIDZ vs RAIDZ2 vs RAIDZ3? With >> 8 x 1.5tb? >> I apologize for seeming dense, I just am confused about non-stardard raid >> setups, they seem tricky. > raidz "eats" one disk. Like RAID5 > raidz2 digests another one. Like RAID6 > raidz3 yet an

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Matt Cowger
RAIDZ = RAID5, so lose 1 drive (1.5TB) RAIDZ2 = RAID6, so lose 2 drives (3TB) RAIDZ3 = RAID7(?), so lose 3 drives (4.5TB). What you lose in useable space, you gain in redundancy. -m -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org]

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Svein Skogen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26.03.2010 20:04, Slack-Moehrle wrote: > > >>> So if I have 8 x 1.5tb drives, wouldn't I: > >>> - mirror drive 1 and 5 >>> - mirror drive 2 and 6 >>> - mirror drive 3 and 7 >>> - mirror drive 4 and 8 > >>> Then stripe 1,2,3,4 > >>> Then s

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Slack-Moehrle
>>So if I have 8 x 1.5tb drives, wouldn't I: >>- mirror drive 1 and 5 >>- mirror drive 2 and 6 >>- mirror drive 3 and 7 >>- mirror drive 4 and 8 >>Then stripe 1,2,3,4 >>Then stripe 5,6,7,8 >>How does one do this with ZFS? >So you would do: >zpool create tank mirror drive1 drive2 mir

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Slack-Moehrle < mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com> wrote: > I am looking at ZFS and I get that they call it RAIDZ which is similar to > RAID 5, but what about RAID 10? Isn't a RAID 10 setup better for data > protection? > > So if I have 8 x 1.5tb drives, wouldn't I: >

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Hi All, > > I am looking at ZFS and I get that they call it RAIDZ which is > similar to RAID 5, but what about RAID 10? Isn't a RAID 10 setup better > for data protection? I think so--at the expense of extra disks for a given amount of available storag

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Hi All, > > I am looking at ZFS and I get that they call it RAIDZ which is similar to > RAID 5, but what about RAID 10? Isn't a RAID 10 setup better for data > protection? > > So if I have 8 x 1.5tb drives, wouldn't I: > > - mirror drive 1 a

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Carson Gaspar
Slack-Moehrle wrote: And I should mention that I have a boot drive (500gb SATA) so I dont have to consider booting from the RAID, I just want to use it for storage. - Original Message - From: "Slack-Moehrle" To: "zfs-discuss" Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 11:39:35 AM Subject: [zfs-disc

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Slack-Moehrle
And I should mention that I have a boot drive (500gb SATA) so I dont have to consider booting from the RAID, I just want to use it for storage. - Original Message - From: "Slack-Moehrle" To: "zfs-discuss" Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 11:39:35 AM Subject: [zfs-discuss] RAID10 Hi All,

[zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Slack-Moehrle
Hi All, I am looking at ZFS and I get that they call it RAIDZ which is similar to RAID 5, but what about RAID 10? Isn't a RAID 10 setup better for data protection? So if I have 8 x 1.5tb drives, wouldn't I: - mirror drive 1 and 5 - mirror drive 2 and 6 - mirror drive 3 and 7 - mirror drive 4 an

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-26 Thread Bottone, Frank
Awesome! Just when I thought zfs couldn’t get any better... -Original Message- From: larry@sun.com [mailto:larry@sun.com] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 11:58 AM To: Bottone, Frank Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new weste

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-26 Thread Svein Skogen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26.03.2010 16:55, Bottone, Frank wrote: > Does zfs handle 4kb sectors properly or does it always assume 512b sectors? > > > > If it does, we could manually create a slice properly aligned and set > zfs to use it? A real simple patch would be to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-26 Thread Larry Liu
Yes, it does. Bottone, Frank 写道: Does zfs handle 4kb sectors properly or does it always assume 512b sectors? If it does, we could manually create a slice properly aligned and set zfs to use it… -- The sender of this email subscribes to Perimeter E-Security's email anti-virus service. T

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and 4kb sector Drives (All new western digital GREEN Drives?)

2010-03-26 Thread Bottone, Frank
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: "mature" is not the right term in this case. FreeBSD has been around much longer than opensolaris, and it's equally if not more mature. FreeBSD is probably somewhat less featureful. Because their focus is heavily on the reliability and stability si

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and ARC

2010-03-26 Thread David Magda
On Fri, March 26, 2010 09:46, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > I don't know that it makes sense to. There are lots of existing filter > packages that do compression; so if you want compression, just put them in > your pipeline. That way you're not limited by what zfs send has > implemented, either. W

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ2 configuration

2010-03-26 Thread David Magda
On Fri, March 26, 2010 07:38, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> Coolio. Learn something new everyday. One more way that raidz is >> different from RAID5/6/etc. > > Freddie, again, you're wrong. Yes, it's perfectly acceptable to create > either raid-5 or raidz using 2 disks. It's not degraded, but it

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hex dump diagrams?

2010-03-26 Thread m...@bruningsystems.com
Hi, You might take a look at http://www.osdevcon.org/2008/files/osdevcon2008-max.pdf and http://www.osdevcon.org/2008/files/osdevcon2008-proceedings.pdf, starting at page 36. Or you might just use "od -x file" for the file part of your assignment. Have fun. max Eric D. Mudama wrote: On Fri,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS hex dump diagrams?

2010-03-26 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Fri, Mar 26 at 11:10, Sanjeev wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 02:45:12PM -0700, John Bonomi wrote: I'm sorry if this is not the appropriate place to ask, but I'm a student and for an assignment I need to be able to show at the hex level how files and their attributes are stored and referenced

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ2 configuration

2010-03-26 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Fri, Mar 26 at 7:29, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > Using fewer than 4 disks in a raidz2 defeats the purpose of raidz2, as > you will always be in a degraded mode. Freddie, are you nuts? This is false. Sure you can use raidz2 with 3 disks in it. But it does seem pointless to do th

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and ARC

2010-03-26 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Fri, March 26, 2010 07:06, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> In the "Thoughts on ZFS Pool Backup Strategies thread" it was stated >> that zfs send, sends uncompress data and uses the ARC. >> >> If "zfs send" sends uncompress data which has already been compress >> this is not very efficient, and it w

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> While I use zfs with FreeBSD (FreeNAS appliance with 4x SATA 1 TByte > drives) > it is trailing OpenSolaris by at least a year if not longer and hence > lacks > many key features people pick zfs over other file systems. The > performance, > especially CIFS is quite lacking. Purportedly (I have ne

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 07:46:01AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > And FreeBSD in general will be built using older versions of packages than > what's in OpenSolaris. > > Both are good OSes. If you can use FreeBSD but OpenSolaris doesn't have the > driver for your hardware, go for it. While I

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send and ARC

2010-03-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> In the "Thoughts on ZFS Pool Backup Strategies thread" it was stated > that zfs send, sends uncompress data and uses the ARC. > > If "zfs send" sends uncompress data which has already been compress > this is not very efficient, and it would be *nice* to see it send the > original compress data.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS backup configuration

2010-03-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> It seems like the zpool export will ques the drives and mark the pool > as exported. This would be good if we wanted to move the pool at that > time but we are thinking of a disaster recovery scenario. It would be > nice to export just the config to where if our controller dies, we can > use the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Svein Skogen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26.03.2010 12:46, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> OK, I have 3Ware looking into a driver for my cards (3ware 9500S-8) as >> I dont see an OpenSolaris driver for them. >> >> But this leads me that they do have a FreeBSD Driver, so I could still >> use ZF

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> OK, I have 3Ware looking into a driver for my cards (3ware 9500S-8) as > I dont see an OpenSolaris driver for them. > > But this leads me that they do have a FreeBSD Driver, so I could still > use ZFS. > > What does everyone thing about that? I bet it is not as mature as on > OpenSolaris. "mat

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ2 configuration

2010-03-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
Just because most people are probably too lazy to click the link, I’ll paste a phrase from that sun.com webpage below: “Creating a single-parity RAID-Z pool is identical to creating a mirrored pool, except that the ‘raidz’ or ‘raidz1’ keyword is used instead of ‘mirror’.” And “zpool create tan

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ2 configuration

2010-03-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> Coolio. Learn something new everyday. One more way that raidz is > different from RAID5/6/etc. Freddie, again, you're wrong. Yes, it's perfectly acceptable to create either raid-5 or raidz using 2 disks. It's not degraded, but it does seem pointless to do this instead of a mirror. Likewis

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ2 configuration

2010-03-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> Using fewer than 4 disks in a raidz2 defeats the purpose of raidz2, as > you will always be in a degraded mode. Freddie, are you nuts? This is false. Sure you can use raidz2 with 3 disks in it. But it does seem pointless to do that instead of a 3-way mirror. _

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive - actual performance

2010-03-26 Thread Bruno Sousa
Hi, The jumbo-frames in my case give me a boost of around 2 mb/s, so it's not that much. Now i will play with link aggregation and see how it goes, and of course i'm counting that incremental replication will be slower...but since the amount of data would be much less probably it will still delive

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive - actual performance

2010-03-26 Thread Bruno Sousa
Hi, I think that in this case the cpu is not the bottleneck, since i'm not using ssh. However my 1gb network link probably is the bottleneck. Bruno On 26-3-2010 9:25, Erik Ableson wrote: > > On 25 mars 2010, at 22:00, Bruno Sousa wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Indeed the 3 disks per vdev (raidz2) seems

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive - actual performance

2010-03-26 Thread Erik Ableson
On 25 mars 2010, at 22:00, Bruno Sousa wrote: Hi, Indeed the 3 disks per vdev (raidz2) seems a bad idea...but it's the system i have now. Regarding the performance...let's assume that a bonnie++ benchmark could go to 200 mg/s in. The possibility of getting the same values (or near) in a