Re: [zfs-discuss] COMSTAR iSCSI and two Windows computers

2010-06-18 Thread Arve Paalsrud
And.. if you're using iSCSI towards ZFS and want to have shared access, take a look at GlusterFS which you use in front of multiple ZFS nodes as accessing point. GlusterFS: http://www.gluster.org/ -Arve > -Original Message- > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] COMSTAR iSCSI and two Windows computers

2010-06-18 Thread Arve Paalsrud
NTFS is not a clustered file system and thus can't handle multiple clients accessing the data. You could use MelioFS if you're Windows based, which handles metadata updates and locking between the accessing nodes to be able to share a NTFS disk between them - even over iSCSI. MelioFS: http://www.s

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ Devena line of enterprise SSD

2010-06-16 Thread Arve Paalsrud
They'll probably track me down and shoot me later on. :o -A > -Original Message- > From: David Magda [mailto:dma...@ee.ryerson.ca] > Sent: 16. juni 2010 15:03 > To: Arve Paalsrud > Cc: 'Scott Meilicke'; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re:

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ Devena line of enterprise SSD

2010-06-16 Thread Arve Paalsrud
Got prices from a retailer now: 100GB - DENRSTE251E10-0100~1100 USD 200GB - DENRSTE251E10-0200~1900 USD 400GB - DENRSTE251E10-0400~4500 USD Prices were given to a country in Europe, so USD prices might be lower. -Arve > -Original Message- > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensola

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSDs adequate ZIL devices?

2010-06-15 Thread Arve Paalsrud
Not to forget the The Deneva Reliability disks from OCZ that just got released. See http://www.oczenterprise.com/details/ocz-deneva-reliability-2-5-emlc-ssd.htm l "The Deneva Reliability family features built-in supercapacitor (SF-1500 models) that acts as a temporary power backup in the event of

Re: [zfs-discuss] High-Performance ZFS (2000MB/s+)

2010-06-15 Thread Arve Paalsrud
> -Original Message- > From: Garrett D'Amore [mailto:garr...@nexenta.com] > Sent: 15. juni 2010 17:43 > To: Arve Paalsrud > Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] High-Performance ZFS (2000MB/s+) > > On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 04:42 -0700

Re: [zfs-discuss] High-Performance ZFS (2000MB/s+)

2010-06-15 Thread Arve Paalsrud
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: > On 6/15/2010 6:17 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote: > >> On 15/06/2010 14:09, Erik Trimble wrote: >> >>> I'm going to say something sacrilegious here: 128GB of RAM may be >>> overkill. You have the SSDs for L2ARC - much of which will be the DDT, >>>

Re: [zfs-discuss] High-Performance ZFS (2000MB/s+)

2010-06-15 Thread Arve Paalsrud
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: > On 6/15/2010 6:57 AM, Arve Paalsrud wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: > > I'd go with 2 Intel X25-E 32GB models for ZIL. Mirror them - striping isn't >> really going to buy you

Re: [zfs-discuss] High-Performance ZFS (2000MB/s+)

2010-06-15 Thread Arve Paalsrud
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Erik Trimble wrote: > On 6/15/2010 4:42 AM, Arve Paalsrud wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> We are currently building a storage box based on OpenSolaris/Nexenta using >> ZFS. >> Our hardware specifications are as follows: >> >&g

[zfs-discuss] High-Performance ZFS (2000MB/s+)

2010-06-15 Thread Arve Paalsrud
Hi, We are currently building a storage box based on OpenSolaris/Nexenta using ZFS. Our hardware specifications are as follows: Quad AMD G34 12-core 2.3 GHz (~110 GHz) 10 Crucial RealSSD (6Gb/s) 42 WD RAID Ed. 4 2TB disks + 6Gb/s SAS expanders LSI2008SAS (two 4x ports) Mellanox InfiniBand 40 Gbi