Re: [zfs-discuss] partioned cache devices

2013-03-16 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 16, 2013, at 7:01 PM, Andrew Werchowiecki wrote: > It's a home set up, the performance penalty from splitting the cache devices > is non-existant, and that work around sounds like some pretty crazy amount of > overhead where I could instead just have a mirrored slog. > > I'm less conc

Re: [zfs-discuss] partioned cache devices

2013-03-16 Thread Andrew Werchowiecki
It's a home set up, the performance penalty from splitting the cache devices is non-existant, and that work around sounds like some pretty crazy amount of overhead where I could instead just have a mirrored slog. I'm less concerned about wasted space, more concerned about amount of SAS ports I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Petabyte pool?

2013-03-16 Thread Schweiss, Chip
I just recently built an OpenIndiana 151a7 system that is currently 1/2 PB that will be expanded to 1 PB as we collect imaging data for the Human Connectome Project at Washington University in St. Louis. It is very much like your use case as this is an offsite backup system that will write once an

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] Petabyte pool?

2013-03-16 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > On 2013-03-16 15:20, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > >> On Sat, 16 Mar 2013, Kristoffer Sheather @ CloudCentral wrote: >> >> Well, off the top of my head: >>> >>> 2 x Storage Heads, 4 x 10G, 256G RAM, 2 x Intel E5 CPU's >>> 8 x 60-Bay JBOD's with 60

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] Petabyte pool?

2013-03-16 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-03-16 15:20, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 16 Mar 2013, Kristoffer Sheather @ CloudCentral wrote: Well, off the top of my head: 2 x Storage Heads, 4 x 10G, 256G RAM, 2 x Intel E5 CPU's 8 x 60-Bay JBOD's with 60 x 4TB SAS drives RAIDZ2 stripe over the 8 x JBOD's That should fit within

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] Petabyte pool?

2013-03-16 Thread Jim Klimov
On 2013-03-16 15:20, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sat, 16 Mar 2013, Kristoffer Sheather @ CloudCentral wrote: Well, off the top of my head: 2 x Storage Heads, 4 x 10G, 256G RAM, 2 x Intel E5 CPU's 8 x 60-Bay JBOD's with 60 x 4TB SAS drives RAIDZ2 stripe over the 8 x JBOD's That should fit within

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] Petabyte pool?

2013-03-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 16 Mar 2013, Kristoffer Sheather @ CloudCentral wrote: Well, off the top of my head: 2 x Storage Heads, 4 x 10G, 256G RAM, 2 x Intel E5 CPU's 8 x 60-Bay JBOD's with 60 x 4TB SAS drives RAIDZ2 stripe over the 8 x JBOD's That should fit within 1 rack comfortably and provide 1 PB storage.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Petabyte pool?

2013-03-16 Thread Marion Hakanson
>hakan...@ohsu.edu said: >> I get a little nervous at the thought of hooking all that up to a single >> server, and am a little vague on how much RAM would be advisable, other than >> "as much as will fit" (:-).  Then again, I've been waiting for something like >> pNFS/NFSv4.1 to be usable for glu