Re: [zfs-discuss] Stupid to have 2 disk raidz?

2009-10-20 Thread Unnikrishnan, Prasad (GE, Corporate)
It will wonderful to see that working, we badly need that capability of being able to remove a disk from a pool. From: James Dickens [mailto:jamesd...@gmail.com] Sent: 20 October 2009 03:39 To: Erik Trimble Cc: Unnikrishnan, Prasad (GE, Corporate); zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpool without any redundancy

2009-10-20 Thread Prasad Unnikrishnan
> What benefit are you hoping zfs will provide in this > situation? Examine > your situation carefully and determine what > filesystem works best for you. > There are many reasons to use ZFS, but if your > configuration isn't set up > to take advantage of those reasons, then there's a > disconn

Re: [zfs-discuss] Stupid to have 2 disk raidz?

2009-10-16 Thread Prasad Unnikrishnan
Add the new disk - start writing new blocks to that disk, instead of waiting to re-layout all the stipes. And when the disk is not active, do slow/safe copy on write to balance all the blocks? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] help please - Zpool import : I/O error

2009-10-14 Thread Prasad Unnikrishnan
Can imagine how it would have been like... did you have any luck after all? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and UFS performance

2007-03-29 Thread prasad
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, prasad wrote: > > > We create iso images of our product in the > following way (high-level): > > > > # mkfile 3g /isoimages/myiso > > # lofiadm -a /isoimages/myiso > > /dev/lofi/1 > > # newfs /dev/rlofi/1 > > #

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and UFS performance

2007-03-28 Thread prasad
t mean? I wonder if the fix is available (or will be available) as a Solaris 10 patch? We have scripts which create our iso images and it will be a too much of a hazzle to modify our scripts with the workaround(s). This sucks, we deployed ZFS into p

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and UFS performance

2007-03-28 Thread prasad
action (we killed this after a while i.e. > few hours). My questions are: * are we doing something wrong * is this a known issue * what are the configuration recommendation for a 3510 FC for ZFS Thanks in advance, -- prasad This message posted from op

[zfs-discuss] Re: Best Practices for StorEdge 3510 Array and ZFS

2006-08-02 Thread prasad
ption was to create 2 LUN's and use raidz. -- prasad This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Best Practices for StorEdge 3510 Array and ZFS

2006-08-02 Thread prasad
2 0 Good Write-Policy Default StripeSize 128KB What are the best practices of using ZFS on this array so that I can benefit from both ZFS and HW RAID? Thanks in advance, -- prasad This message posted from opensolaris.org