[zfs-discuss] RamSan experience in ZFS

2010-11-29 Thread Fred Liu
Hi, Anyone who has the experience of Texas Memory Systems's RamSan in ZFS? Thanks. Fred ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-29 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Krunal Desai 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. > > I believe it's more the firmware (and p

Re: [zfs-discuss] Strange behavior of b151a and .zfs directory

2010-11-29 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Karel, Try /usr/bin/find instead of /usr/gnu/bin/find: # which find /usr/gnu/bin/find # zfs snapshot rpool/cin...@snap1 # cd /rpool/cindys/.zfs # /usr/bin/find . -type f ./snapshot/snap1/file.1 ./snapshot/snap1/file.2 Thanks, Cindy On 11/25/10 15:22, Karel Gardas wrote: Hello, after upgra

Re: [zfs-discuss] Seagate ST32000542AS and ZFS perf

2010-11-29 Thread taemun
On 30 November 2010 03:09, Krunal Desai wrote: > I assume it either: > > 1. does a really good job of 512-byte emulation that results in little > to no performance degradation > ( > http://consumer.media.seagate.com/2010/06/the-digital-den/advanced-format-drives-with-smartalign/ > references "te

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

2010-11-29 Thread Jens Elkner
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 03:04:27AM -0800, Erik Trimble wrote: Hi, > > I haven't had a chance to test a Vertex 2 PRO against my 2 EX, and I'd > be interested if anyone else has. The EX is SLC-based, and the PRO is > MLC-based, but the claimed performance numbers are similar. If the PRO > work

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to zfs send current stage of fs from read-only pool?

2010-11-29 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Karel, You can't create snapshots in a read-only pool. You will have to use something else besides zfs snapshots, such as tar or cpio. You could have used zfs send if a snapshot already existed but you can't write anything to the pool when it is in read-only mode. Thanks, Cindy On 11/25/10 0

Re: [zfs-discuss] Seagate ST32000542AS and ZFS perf

2010-11-29 Thread Krunal Desai
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Krunal Desai wrote: > The Seagate datasheet for those parts report 512-byte sectors. What is > the deal with the ST32000542AS: native 512-byte sectors, native > 4k-byte sector with selectable emulation, or native 4k-byte sectors > with 512-byte sector emulation al

Re: [zfs-discuss] Seagate ST32000542AS and ZFS perf

2010-11-29 Thread Krunal Desai
> I'm using these drives for one of the vdevs in my pool. The pool was created > with ashift=12 (zpool binary > from http://digitaldj.net/2010/11/03/zfs-zpool-v28-openindiana-b147-4k-drives-and-you/), > which limits the minimum block size to 4KB, the same as the physical block > size on these drive

Re: [zfs-discuss] mirrored drive

2010-11-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 29-11-2010 14:35, rwali...@washdcmail.com wrote: I haven't done this on Solaris 11 Express, but this worked on OpenSolaris 2009-06: prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c5t0d0s0 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c5t1d0s0 Where the first disk is the current root and the second one is the new mirror. It works om solari

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recomandations

2010-11-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Paul Piscuc > > 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 There are several important

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recomandations

2010-11-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Erik Trimble > > (1) Unless you are using Zvols for "raw" disk partitions (for use with > something like a database), the recordsize value is a MAXIMUM value, NOT > an absolute value. Thus, if

Re: [zfs-discuss] Seagate ST32000542AS and ZFS perf

2010-11-29 Thread David Magda
On Mon, November 29, 2010 04:50, taemun wrote: > I would urge you to consider a 2^n + p number of disks. For raidz, p = 1, > so an acceptable number of total drives is 3, 5 or 9. raidz2 has two > parity drives, hence 4, 6 or 10. These vdev widths ensure that the data > blocks are divided into nic

Re: [zfs-discuss] mirrored drive

2010-11-29 Thread rwalists
On Nov 29, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > OK, I've got a proble I can't solve by myself. I've installed solaris 11 > using just one drive. > Now I want to create a mirror by attached a second one tot the rpool. > However, the first one has NO partition 9 but the second one does. This

[zfs-discuss] mirrored drive

2010-11-29 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
OK, I've got a proble I can't solve by myself. I've installed solaris 11 using just one drive. Now I want to create a mirror by attached a second one tot the rpool. However, the first one has NO partition 9 but the second one does. This way the sizes differ if I create a partiotion 0 (needed bec

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recomandations

2010-11-29 Thread taemun
On 29 November 2010 15:03, Erik Trimble wrote: > I'd have to re-look at the ZFS Best Practices Guide, but I'm pretty sure > the recommendation of 7, 9, or 11 disks was for a raidz1, NOT a raidz2. Due > to #5 above, best performance comes with an EVEN number of data disks in any > raidZ, so a wri

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recomandations

2010-11-29 Thread Paul Piscuc
Hi, Thanks for the quick reply. Now that you have mentioned , we have a different issue. What is the advantage of using spare disks instead of including them in the raid-z array? If the system pool is on mirrored disks, I think that this would be enough (hopefully). When one disk fails, isn't it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Seagate ST32000542AS and ZFS perf

2010-11-29 Thread GMAIL
Thanks, I need to try modified zpool than. On Nov 29, 2010, at 10:50 AM, taemun wrote: > On 29 November 2010 20:39, GMAIL wrote: > Does anyone use Seagate ST32000542AS disks with ZFS? > > I wonder if the performance is not that ugly as with WD Green WD20EARS disks. > > I'm using these drives f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Seagate ST32000542AS and ZFS perf

2010-11-29 Thread taemun
On 29 November 2010 20:39, GMAIL wrote: > Does anyone use Seagate ST32000542AS disks with ZFS? > > I wonder if the performance is not that ugly as with WD Green WD20EARS > disks. > I'm using these drives for one of the vdevs in my pool. The pool was created with ashift=12 (zpool binary from http

[zfs-discuss] Seagate ST32000542AS and ZFS perf

2010-11-29 Thread GMAIL
Hi, Does anyone use Seagate ST32000542AS disks with ZFS? I wonder if the performance is not that ugly as with WD Green WD20EARS disks. Thanks, -- Piotr Jasiukajtis | estibi | SCA OS0072 http://estseg.blogspot.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-disc