Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Configuring a 3510 for ZFS

2006-10-18 Thread Torrey McMahon
Robert Milkowski wrote: Well, I don't know - that way you end doing RAID in ZFS anyway so probably doing just RAID-10 in ZFS without ditto block would be better. The win with ditto blocks is allowing you to recover from a data inconsistency at the fs level as opposed to dealing with a block e

RE: [zfs-discuss] Re: Configuring a 3510 for ZFS

2006-10-18 Thread Ciaran Johnston \(AT/LMI\)
raidz in this scenario. Regards, Ciaran. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anantha N. Srirama Sent: 18 October 2006 13:11 To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] Re: Configuring a 3510 for ZFS Thanks for the stimulating

[zfs-discuss] Re: Configuring a 3510 for ZFS

2006-10-18 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
Thanks for the stimulating exchange of ideas/thoughts. I've always been a believer of letting s/w do my RAID functions; for example in the old days of VxVM I always preferred to do mirroring at the s/w level. It is my belief that there is more 'meta' information available at the OS level than at

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Re: Configuring a 3510 for ZFS

2006-10-17 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Richard, Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 6:18:21 PM, you wrote: REP> [editorial comment below :-)] REP> Matthew Ahrens wrote: >> Torrey McMahon wrote: >>> Richard Elling - PAE wrote: Anantha N. Srirama wrote: > I'm glad you asked this question. We are currently expecting 3511 > st

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Configuring a 3510 for ZFS

2006-10-17 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
[editorial comment below :-)] Matthew Ahrens wrote: Torrey McMahon wrote: Richard Elling - PAE wrote: Anantha N. Srirama wrote: I'm glad you asked this question. We are currently expecting 3511 storage sub-systems for our servers. We were wondering about their configuration as well. This ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Configuring a 3510 for ZFS

2006-10-16 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Torrey McMahon wrote: Richard Elling - PAE wrote: Anantha N. Srirama wrote: I'm glad you asked this question. We are currently expecting 3511 storage sub-systems for our servers. We were wondering about their configuration as well. This ZFS thing throws a wrench in the old line think ;-) Seri

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Configuring a 3510 for ZFS

2006-10-16 Thread Torrey McMahon
Richard Elling - PAE wrote: Anantha N. Srirama wrote: I'm glad you asked this question. We are currently expecting 3511 storage sub-systems for our servers. We were wondering about their configuration as well. This ZFS thing throws a wrench in the old line think ;-) Seriously, we now have to p

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Configuring a 3510 for ZFS

2006-10-16 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Anantha N. Srirama wrote: I'm glad you asked this question. We are currently expecting 3511 storage sub-systems for our servers. We were wondering about their configuration as well. This ZFS thing throws a wrench in the old line think ;-) Seriously, we now have to put on a new hat to figure out

[zfs-discuss] Re: Configuring a 3510 for ZFS

2006-10-16 Thread Anantha N. Srirama
I'm glad you asked this question. We are currently expecting 3511 storage sub-systems for our servers. We were wondering about their configuration as well. This ZFS thing throws a wrench in the old line think ;-) Seriously, we now have to put on a new hat to figure out the best way to leverage b