Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ versus mirrroed

2009-09-16 Thread eneal
Quoting David Magda : On Wed, September 16, 2009 10:31, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Hi. If I am using slightly more reliable SAS drives versus SATA, SSDs for both L2Arc and ZIL and lots of RAM, will a mirrored pool of say 24 disks hold any significant advantages over a RAIDZ pool? Generally spea

[zfs-discuss] RAIDZ versus mirrroed

2009-09-16 Thread eneal
Hi. If I am using slightly more reliable SAS drives versus SATA, SSDs for both L2Arc and ZIL and lots of RAM, will a mirrored pool of say 24 disks hold any significant advantages over a RAIDZ pool? This email

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lightning SSD with 180,000 IOPs, 320MB/s writes

2009-09-15 Thread eneal
Quoting Brian Hechinger : If you need to ask you can't afford it? :-D -brian -- We can all dream can't we? This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use

Re: [zfs-discuss] Lightning SSD with 180,000 IOPs, 320MB/s writes

2009-09-15 Thread eneal
Quoting Roman Naumenko : http://www.plianttechnology.com/lightning_ls.php Write Endurance Unlimited :) Does anyone know list prices? This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why is Solaris 10 ZFS performance so terrible?

2009-09-10 Thread eneal
Quoting Bob Friesenhahn : On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Rich Morris wrote: On 07/28/09 17:13, Rich Morris wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Sun has opened internal CR 6859997. It is now in Dispatched state at High priority. CR 6859997 has recently been fixed in Neva

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] How ZFS prefetch "issues" impact the use of Zvols are remote LUNs

2009-09-03 Thread eneal
Quoting en...@businessgrade.com: Hi. As the subject indicates, I'm trying to understand the impact of the ZFS prefetch "issues" and if they only impact a local zfs filesystem versus say a zvol that remotely using the lun via iSCSI or Fibrechannel. Can anyone comment on this? The specific "issue

[zfs-discuss] How ZFS prefetch "issues" impact the use of Zvols are remote LUNs

2009-09-03 Thread eneal
Hi. As the subject indicates, I'm trying to understand the impact of the ZFS prefetch "issues" and if they only impact a local zfs filesystem versus say a zvol that remotely using the lun via iSCSI or Fibrechannel. Can anyone comment on this? The specific "issues" are consolidated here: ht

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read performance scalability

2009-08-31 Thread eneal
Quoting Mertol Ozyoney : Hi; You may be hitting a bottleneck at your HBA. Try using multiple HBA's or drive channels Mertol I'm pretty sure it's not a HBA issue. As I commented, my per-disk write throughput stayed pretty consistent for 4, 8 and 12 disk pools and varied between 80 and 90

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS read performance scalability

2009-08-31 Thread eneal
Quoting Bob Friesenhahn : On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, en...@businessgrade.com wrote: Hi. I've been doing some simple read/write tests using filebench on a mirrored pool. Essentially, I've been scaling up the number of disks in the pool before each test between 4, 8 and 12. I've noticed that f

[zfs-discuss] ZFS read performance scalability

2009-08-31 Thread eneal
Hi. I've been doing some simple read/write tests using filebench on a mirrored pool. Essentially, I've been scaling up the number of disks in the pool before each test between 4, 8 and 12. I've noticed that for individual disks, ZFS write performance scales very well between 4, 8 and 12 dis