Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-20 Thread Krunal Desai
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Albert Shih wrote: > I'm not sure what you mean when you say «H200 flashed with IT firmware» ? IT is "Initiator Target", and many LSI chips have a version of their firmware available that will put them into this mode, which is desirable for ZFS. This is opposed to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-20 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
> > On the Dell website I've the choice between : > > >SAS 6Gbps External Controller >PERC H800 RAID Adapter for External JBOD, 512MB Cache, PCIe >PERC H800 RAID Adapter for External JBOD, 512MB NV Cache, PCIe >PERC H800 RAID Adapter for External JBOD, 1GB NV Cache, PCIe >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Growing CKSUM errors with no READ/WRITE errors

2011-10-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov > > new CKSUM errors > are being found. There are zero READ or WRITE error counts, > though. > > Should we be worried about replacing the ex-hotspare drive > ASAP as well? You shoul

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-20 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 20 Oct 2011, at 05:24, Dennis Glatting wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Dave Pooser >> wrote: >>> On 10/19/11 9:14 AM, "Albert Shih" wrote: >>> When we buy a MD1200 we need a RAID PERC H800 card on the server >>> >>>

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-20 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:56 AM, Dave Pooser wrote: On 10/19/11 9:14 AM, "Albert Shih" wrote: When we buy a MD1200 we need a RAID PERC H800 card on the server No, you need a card that includes 2 external x4 SFF8088 SAS connectors. I'd recomme

Re: [zfs-discuss] Stream versions in Solaris 10.

2011-10-20 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Ian Collins > > I just tried sending from a oi151a system to a Solaris 10 backup > server and the server barfed with > > zfs_receive: stream is unsupported version 17 > > I can't find any d

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-20 Thread Albert Shih
Le 19/10/2011 à 10:52:07-0400, Krunal Desai a écrit > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Albert Shih wrote: > > When we buy a MD1200 we need a RAID PERC H800 card on the server so we have > > two options : > > > >        1/ create a LV on the PERC H800 so the server see one volume and put > >    

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-20 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Albert Shih wrote: >> > Any advise about the RAM I need on the server (actually one MD1200 so >> > 12x2To disk) >> >> The more the better :) > > Well, my employer is not so rich. > > It's first time I'm going to use ZFS on FreeBSD on production (I use on my > lapt

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-20 Thread Albert Shih
Le 19/10/2011 à 21:30:31+0700, Fajar A. Nugraha a écrit > > Sorry to cross-posting. I don't knwon which mailing-list I should post this > > message. > > > > I'll would like to use FreeBSD with ZFS on some Dell server with some > > MD1200 (classique DAS). > > > > When we buy a MD1200 we need a RAID