Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance lower than expected

2008-05-09 Thread Bart Van Assche
> > The disks in the SAN servers were indeed striped together with Linux LVM > > and exported as a single volume to ZFS. > > That is really going to hurt. In general, you're much better off > giving ZFS access to all the individual LUNs. The intermediate > LVM layer kills the concurrency that's

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance lower than expected

2008-03-21 Thread Bart Van Assche
> If I understand this correctly, you've stripped the disks together > w/ Linux lvm, then exported a single ISCSI volume to ZFS (or two for > mirroring; which isn't clear). The disks in the SAN servers were indeed striped together with Linux LVM and exported as a single volume to ZFS. The ZFS p

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance lower than expected

2008-03-20 Thread Bart Van Assche
> It looks like the ZFS server is communicating with only one SAN server at a > time. This leads to the following question: is there a setting in ZFS that enables concurrent writes to the ZFS storage targets instead of serializing all write actions ? Bart. This message posted from opensola

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance lower than expected

2008-03-20 Thread Bart Van Assche
- "Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you considered building one solaris system and using its iSCSI > target? When it comes to software iSCSI, you tend to get VERY > different results when moving from one platform to the next. In my > experience, Linux is notorious on iSCSI for working wel

[zfs-discuss] ZFS performance lower than expected

2008-03-20 Thread Bart Van Assche
Any help with improving the performance of this setup is highly appreciated. Bart Van Assche. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss