Re: [zfs-discuss] reliable, enterprise worthy JBODs?

2011-01-26 Thread Lasse Osterild
On 25/01/2011, at 22.39, Ian Collins wrote: > On 01/26/11 09:50 AM, Lasse Osterild wrote: >> I'd go with some Dell MD1200's, for us they ended up being cheaper (incl >> disks) than a SuperMicro case with the same model disks, and it's way nicer >> t

Re: [zfs-discuss] reliable, enterprise worthy JBODs?

2011-01-25 Thread Lasse Osterild
On 25/01/2011, at 19.04, Philip Brown wrote: > So, another hardware question :) > > ZFS has been touted as taking maximal advantage of disk hardware, to the > point where it can be used efficiently and cost-effectively on JBODs, rather > than having to throw more expensive RAID arrays at it. >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-12-22 Thread Lasse Osterild
I've just noticed that Dell has a 6.0.1 firmware upgrade available, at least for my R610's they do (they are about 3 months old). Oddly enough it doesn't show up on support.dell.com when I search using my servicecode, but if I check through "System Services / Lifecycle Controller" it does find

Re: [zfs-discuss] PowerEdge R510 with PERC H200/H700 with ZFS

2010-08-08 Thread Lasse Osterild
On 08/08/2010, at 07.23, valrh...@gmail.com wrote: > 2. I'd also recommend avoiding the PERC cards, in particular since it makes > drives attached to it impossible to transport to another system. Instead, I > use the SAS 6i/R controller. That's built into the motherboard on the PW > T7500, and

Re: [zfs-discuss] BP rewrite? (Was Re: spreading data after adding devices to pool)

2010-07-09 Thread Lasse Osterild
+1 I badly need this. On 09/07/2010, at 19.40, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Anyone knows where in the pipeline BP rewrite is, or how long this pipeline > is? > > You could move the data elsewhere using zfs send and recv, destroy the > original datasets and then recreate them. This would str

[zfs-discuss] Virident tachIOn SSD for ZIL ?

2010-06-16 Thread Lasse Osterild
Hi, Have any of you looked at SSD's from Virident ? http://virident.com/products.php Looks pretty impressive to me, though I am sure the price is as well. - Lasse ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool list size

2010-02-08 Thread Lasse Osterild
On 09/02/2010, at 00.23, Daniel Carosone wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 11:28:11PM +0100, Lasse Osterild wrote: >> Ok thanks I know that the amount of used space will vary, but what's >> the usefulness of the total size when ie in my pool above 4 x 1G >> (roughly, de

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool list size

2010-02-08 Thread Lasse Osterild
On 08/02/2010, at 22.50, Richard Elling wrote: >> >> r...@vmstor01:/# zpool list >> NAME SIZE ALLOC FREECAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT >> dataPool 9.94G 4.89G 5.04G49% 1.00x ONLINE - >> >> Now here's what I don't get, why does it say the poo sizel is 9.94G when >> it's made

[zfs-discuss] zpool list size

2010-02-08 Thread Lasse Osterild
Hi, This may well have been covered before but I've not been able to find an answer to this particular question. I've setup a raidz2 test env using files like this: # mkfile 1g t1 t2 t3 t4 t5 t6 t7 t8 t9 t10 s1 s2 # zpool create dataPool raidz2 /xvm/t1 /xvm/t2 /xvm/t3 /xvm/t4 /xvm/t5 # zpool

[zfs-discuss] S10U8 msg/ZFS-8000-9P

2009-10-29 Thread Lasse Osterild
Hi, Seems either Solaris or SunSolve is in need of an update. pool: dataPool state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error. Applications are unaffected. action: Determine if the device needs to be repla