Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: 3510 configuration for ZFS

2006-06-02 Thread Roch Bourbonnais - Performance Engineering
Tao Chen writes: > Hello Robert, > > On 6/1/06, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Anton, > > > > Thursday, June 1, 2006, 5:27:24 PM, you wrote: > > > > ABR> What about small random writes? Won't those also require reading > > ABR> from all disks in RAID-Z to read the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: 3510 configuration for ZFS

2006-06-01 Thread grant beattie
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 06:40:15PM -0500, Tao Chen wrote: > >ABR> What about small random writes? Won't those also require reading > >ABR> from all disks in RAID-Z to read the blocks for update, where in > >ABR> mirroring only one disk need be accessed? Or am I missing something? > > > >If I under

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: 3510 configuration for ZFS

2006-06-01 Thread Tao Chen
Hello Robert, On 6/1/06, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Anton, Thursday, June 1, 2006, 5:27:24 PM, you wrote: ABR> What about small random writes? Won't those also require reading ABR> from all disks in RAID-Z to read the blocks for update, where in ABR> mirroring only one d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: 3510 configuration for ZFS

2006-06-01 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Anton, Thursday, June 1, 2006, 5:27:24 PM, you wrote: ABR> What about small random writes? Won't those also require reading ABR> from all disks in RAID-Z to read the blocks for update, where in ABR> mirroring only one disk need be accessed? Or am I missing something? If I understand it cor

[zfs-discuss] Re: 3510 configuration for ZFS

2006-06-01 Thread Anton B. Rang
What about small random writes? Won't those also require reading from all disks in RAID-Z to read the blocks for update, where in mirroring only one disk need be accessed? Or am I missing something? (It seems like RAID-Z is similar to RAID-3 in its performance characteristics, since both spread