Re: [zfs-discuss] weird bug with Seagate 3TB USB3 drive

2011-10-14 Thread John D Groenveld
As a sanity check, I connected the drive to a Windows 7 installation. I was able to partition, create an NTFS volume on it, eject and remount it. I also tried creating the zpool on my Solaris 10 system, exporting and trying to import the pool on my Solaris 11X system and again no love. I'm baffle

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper (X4500), and CF SSD for L2ARC = ?

2011-10-14 Thread Gregory Shaw
Here's the zpool layout. You don't really have a choice on the boot volume -- the system supports only two drives on the same chain. The remaining drives are as shown: pool: internal state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h0m with 0 errors on Sat Oct 8 21:15:42 2011 config:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper (X4500), and CF SSD for L2ARC = ?

2011-10-14 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-10-14 23:57, Gregory Shaw пишет: You might want to keep in mind that the X4500 was a ~2006 box, and had only PCI-X slots. Or, at least, that's what the 3 Iv'e got have. I think the X4540 had PCIe, but I never got one of those. :-( I haven't seen any cache accelerator PCI-X cards. Howe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper (X4500), and CF SSD for L2ARC = ?

2011-10-14 Thread Gregory Shaw
You might want to keep in mind that the X4500 was a ~2006 box, and had only PCI-X slots. Or, at least, that's what the 3 Iv'e got have. I think the X4540 had PCIe, but I never got one of those. :-( I haven't seen any cache accelerator PCI-X cards. However, what I've done on the X4500 systems

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper (X4500), and CF SSD for L2ARC = ?

2011-10-14 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Jim Klimov wrote: Thanks, but I believe currently that's out of budget, but a 90MB/s CF module may be acceptable for the small business customer. I wondered if that is known to work or not... I've had a compact flash IDE drive not work in a white-box system. In that case it was a ufs root disk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper (X4500), and CF SSD for L2ARC = ?

2011-10-14 Thread Erik Trimble
On 10/14/2011 5:49 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote: On 10/14/11 13:39, Jim Klimov wrote: Hello, I was asked if the CF port in Thumpers can be accessed by the OS? In particular, would it be a good idea to use a modern 600x CF card (some reliable one intended for professional photography) as an L2ARC de

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper (X4500), and CF SSD for L2ARC = ?

2011-10-14 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-10-14 21:01, Jordan Schwartz пишет: Try and get your hands on a Sun F20 Card which has 4 x 25GB SSD Modules on a PCI card. Thanks, but I believe currently that's out of budget, but a 90MB/s CF module may be acceptable for the small business customer. I wondered if that is known to work or

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wanted: sanity check for a clustered ZFS idea

2011-10-14 Thread Nico Williams
Also, it's not worth doing a clustered ZFS thing that is too application-specific. You really want to nail down your choices of semantics, explore what design options those yield (or approach from the other direction, or both), and so on. Nico -- ___ zf

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wanted: sanity check for a clustered ZFS idea

2011-10-14 Thread Nico Williams
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > Thanks to Nico for concerns about POSIX locking. However, > hopefully, in the usecase I described - serving images of > VMs in a manner where storage, access and migration are > efficient - whole datasets (be it volumes or FS datasets) > can be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wanted: sanity check for a clustered ZFS idea

2011-10-14 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-10-14 19:33, Tim Cook пишет: With clustered VMFS on shared storage, VMWare can migrate VMs faster - it knows not to copy the HDD image file in vain - it will be equally available to the "new host" at the correct point in migration, just as it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wanted: sanity check for a clustered ZFS idea

2011-10-14 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: > 2011-10-14 15:53, Edward Ned Harvey пишет: > > From: > zfs-discuss-bounces@**opensolaris.org[mailto: >>> zfs-discuss- >>> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov >>> >>> I guess Richard was correct about the usecase description - >>>

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper (X4500), and CF SSD for L2ARC = ?

2011-10-14 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 10/14/11 13:39, Jim Klimov wrote: Hello, I was asked if the CF port in Thumpers can be accessed by the OS? In particular, would it be a good idea to use a modern 600x CF card (some reliable one intended for professional photography) as an L2ARC device using this port? I don't know about the

[zfs-discuss] Thumper (X4500), and CF SSD for L2ARC = ?

2011-10-14 Thread Jim Klimov
Hello, I was asked if the CF port in Thumpers can be accessed by the OS? In particular, would it be a good idea to use a modern 600x CF card (some reliable one intended for professional photography) as an L2ARC device using this port? Thanks, //Jim

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wanted: sanity check for a clustered ZFS idea

2011-10-14 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-10-14 15:53, Edward Ned Harvey пишет: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov I guess Richard was correct about the usecase description - I should detail what I'm thinking about, to give some illustration. After readin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wanted: sanity check for a clustered ZFS idea

2011-10-14 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov > > I guess Richard was correct about the usecase description - > I should detail what I'm thinking about, to give some illustration. After reading all this, I'm still unclear on wh