Re: [zfs-discuss] Recomandations

2010-11-28 Thread Erik Trimble
On 11/28/2010 1:51 PM, Paul Piscuc wrote: Hi, We are a company that want to replace our current storage layout with one that uses ZFS. We have been testing it for a month now, and everything looks promising. One element that we cannot determine is the optimum number of disks in a raid-z pool

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-28 Thread Krunal Desai
> There are problems with Sandforce controllers, according to forum posts. > Buggy firmware. And in practice, Sandforce is far below it's theoretical > values. I expect Intel to have fewer problems. I believe it's more the firmware (and pace of firmware updates) from companies making Sandforce-

[zfs-discuss] Recomandations

2010-11-28 Thread Paul Piscuc
Hi, We are a company that want to replace our current storage layout with one that uses ZFS. We have been testing it for a month now, and everything looks promising. One element that we cannot determine is the optimum number of disks in a raid-z pool. In the ZFS best practice guide, 7,9 and 11 di

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-28 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:42 AM, David Magda wrote: > On Nov 27, 2010, at 16:14, Tim Cook wrote: > > You don't need drivers for any SATA based SSD. It shows up as a standard >> hard drive and plugs into a standard SATA port. By the time the G3 Intel >> drive is out, the next gen Sandforce sho

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-28 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Orvar Korvar < knatte_fnatte_tja...@yahoo.com> wrote: > There are problems with Sandforce controllers, according to forum posts. > Buggy firmware. And in practice, Sandforce is far below it's theoretical > values. I expect Intel to have fewer problems. > > Accordin

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-28 Thread Orvar Korvar
There are problems with Sandforce controllers, according to forum posts. Buggy firmware. And in practice, Sandforce is far below it's theoretical values. I expect Intel to have fewer problems. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-28 Thread David Magda
On Nov 27, 2010, at 16:14, Tim Cook wrote: You don't need drivers for any SATA based SSD. It shows up as a standard hard drive and plugs into a standard SATA port. By the time the G3 Intel drive is out, the next gen Sandforce should be out as well. Unless Intel does something revolution

[zfs-discuss] Data set busy

2010-11-28 Thread bhanu prakash
Hi Team, When I am trying take the snapshot on the zfs list file system, it is giving below error. cannot create snapshot 'sanpool_new/wlsdva13_d...@new': dataset is busy Please give me suggestions on this. Regards, Bhanu ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ext. UPS-backed SATA SSD ZIL?

2010-11-28 Thread Erik Trimble
On 11/27/2010 11:08 PM, Christopher George wrote: I'm doing compiles of the JDK, with a single backed ZFS system handing the files for 20-30 clients, each trying to compile a 15 million-line JDK at the same time. Very cool application! Can you share any metrics, such as the aggregate size of so

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ext. UPS-backed SATA SSD ZIL?

2010-11-28 Thread Erik Trimble
On 11/27/2010 7:42 PM, Tim Cook wrote: On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Erik Trimble > wrote: On 11/27/2010 6:50 PM, Christopher George wrote: Furthermore, I don't think "1 hour sustained" is a very accurate benchmark. M