Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Motherboard

2007-11-22 Thread Jason P. Warr
If you want a board that is a steal look at this one: http://www.ascendtech.us/itemdesc.asp?ic=MBTAS2882G3NR Tyan S2882, Dual Socket 940 Opteron, 8 DDR slots, 2 PCI-X 133 busses with 2 slots each, Dual Core support. $80. Pair is with a couple of Opteron 270's from ebay for $195: http://cgi.e

Re: [zfs-discuss] offlining a storage pool

2007-11-21 Thread Jason P. Warr
I'm guessing that if you could offline the pool you'd still see it listed in zpool status. Other than that I can't think of a reason. - Original Message - From: "Will Murnane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Wednesday, November 21,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommended many-port SATA controllers for budget ZFS

2007-11-20 Thread Jason P. Warr
>the 3124 looks perfect. The only problem is the only thing I found on ebay >was for the 3132, which is PCIe, which doesn't help me. :) I'm not finding >anything for 3124 other than the data on silicon image's site. Do you know >of any cards I should be looking for that uses this chip? http://w

Re: [zfs-discuss] new PCI Express flash card

2007-09-28 Thread Jason P. Warr
This looks real promising. At the $30/GB target it is 1/2 the market price for decent ram. Effective lifetime is obviously lower given that it is flash. Although most of the SSD makers have been doing some pretty impressive cell balancing to make it worth it. Personally I would like to see s

[zfs-discuss] Balancing reads across mirror sets

2007-09-26 Thread Jason P. Warr
Hi all, I have an interesting project that I am working on. It is a large volume file download service that is in need of a new box. There current systems are not able to handle the load because for various reasons they have become very I/O limited. We currently run on Debian Linux with 3war