Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-17 Thread Carson Gaspar
On 6/17/12 6:36 PM, Timothy Coalson wrote: No problem, and yes, I think that should work. One thing to keep in mind, though, is that if the internals of the enclosure simply split the multilane SAS cable into 4 connectors without an expander, and you use SATA drives, the controller will use SAT

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-17 Thread Timothy Coalson
> worst case).  The worst case for 512 emulated sectors on zfs is > probably small (4KB or so) synchronous writes (which if they mattered > to you, you would probably have a separate log device, in which case > the data disk write penalty may not matter). > > > Good to know. This really opens up th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-17 Thread Carson Gaspar
On 6/17/12 3:21 PM, Koopmann, Jan-Peter wrote: Hi Tim, you might be able to use an adapter to the SFF-8088 external 4 lane SAS connector, which may increase your options. So what you are saying is that something like this will do the trick? http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sata_enclosu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-17 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi Tim, thanks to you and the others for answering. > worst case). The worst case for 512 emulated sectors on zfs is > probably small (4KB or so) synchronous writes (which if they mattered > to you, you would probably have a separate log device, in which case > the data disk write penalty may no

Re: [zfs-discuss] Occasional storm of xcalls on segkmem_zio_free

2012-06-17 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 06/13/2012 03:43 PM, Roch wrote: > > Sašo Kiselkov writes: > > On 06/12/2012 05:37 PM, Roch Bourbonnais wrote: > > > > > > So the xcall are necessary part of memory reclaiming, when one needs to > tear down the TLB entry mapping the physical memory (which can from here on > be repurposed)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-17 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 03:19:18PM -0500, Timothy Coalson wrote: > Replacing devices will not change the ashift, it is set permanently > when a vdev is created, and zpool will refuse to replace a device in > an ashift=9 vdev with a device that it would use ashift=12 on. Yep. > [..] while hitachi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-17 Thread Jim Klimov
2012-06-17 19:11, Koopmann, Jan-Peter пишет: Hi, my oi151 based home NAS is approaching a frightening "drive space" level. Right now the data volume is a 4*1TB Raid-Z1, 3 1/2" local disks individually connected to an 8 port LSI 6Gbit controller. So I can either exchange the disks one by one wit

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-17 Thread Timothy Coalson
> So I can either exchange the disks one by one with autoexpand, use 2-4 TB > disks and be happy. This was my original approach. However I am totally > unclear about the 512b vs 4Kb issue. What sata disk could I use that is big > enough and still uses 512b? I know about the discussion about the upg

[zfs-discuss] Recommendation for home NAS external JBOD

2012-06-17 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
Hi, my oi151 based home NAS is approaching a frightening "drive space" level. Right now the data volume is a 4*1TB Raid-Z1, 3 1/2" local disks individually connected to an 8 port LSI 6Gbit controller. So I can either exchange the disks one by one with autoexpand, use 2-4 TB disks and be happy.