Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Recommendation ZFS on StorEdge 3320

2006-09-07 Thread Peter Rival
Richard Elling - PAE wrote: Torrey McMahon wrote: Raid calculations take CPU time but I haven't seen numbers on ZFS usage. SVM is known for using a fair bit of CPU when performing R5 calculations and I'm sure other OS have the same issue. EMC used to go around saying that offloading raid calcu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and Storage

2006-06-27 Thread Peter Rival
I don't like to top-post, but there's no better way right now. This issue has recurred several times and there have been no answers to it that cover the bases. The question is, say I as a customer have a database, let's say it's around 8 TB, all built on a series of high end storage arrays th

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and databases

2006-05-12 Thread Peter Rival
Roch Bourbonnais - Performance Engineering wrote: Tao Chen writes: > On 5/12/06, Roch Bourbonnais - Performance Engineering > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: Gregory Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Regarding directio and quickio, is there a way with ZFS to skip the > > system bu

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and databases

2006-05-11 Thread Peter Rival
Richard Elling wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 10:27 -0700, Richard Elling wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 10:31 -0600, Gregory Shaw wrote: A couple of points/additions with regard to oracle in particular: When talking about large database installations, copy-on-write may or may not apply. The

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and databases

2006-05-11 Thread Peter Rival
Richard Elling wrote: On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 10:31 -0600, Gregory Shaw wrote: A couple of points/additions with regard to oracle in particular: When talking about large database installations, copy-on-write may or may not apply. The files are never completely rewritten, only changed inter