Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and SE 3511

2006-12-23 Thread Mike Seda
Anton Rang wrote: On Dec 19, 2006, at 7:14 AM, Mike Seda wrote: Anton B. Rang wrote: I have a Sun SE 3511 array with 5 x 500 GB SATA-I disks in a RAID 5. This 2 TB logical drive is partitioned into 10 x 200GB slices. I gave 4 of these slices to a Solaris 10 U2 machine and added each of them

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and SE 3511

2006-12-20 Thread Toby Thain
On 20-Dec-06, at 3:05 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: Hi Toby, My understanding on the subject of SATA firmware reliability vs. FC/SCSI is that its mostly related to SATA firmware being a lot younger. ... Its probably unfair to expect defect rates out of SATA firmware equivalent to firmware t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and SE 3511

2006-12-20 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Toby, My understanding on the subject of SATA firmware reliability vs. FC/SCSI is that its mostly related to SATA firmware being a lot younger. The FC/SCSI firmware that's out there has been debugged for 10 years or so, so it has a lot fewer hiccoughs. Pillar Data Systems told us once that the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and SE 3511

2006-12-20 Thread Toby Thain
On 19-Dec-06, at 2:42 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: I do see this note in the 3511 documentation: "Note - Do not use a Sun StorEdge 3511 SATA array to store single instances of data. It is more suitable for use in configurations where the array has a backup or archival role." My unders

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and SE 3511

2006-12-19 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
I do see this note in the 3511 documentation: "Note - Do not use a Sun StorEdge 3511 SATA array to store single instances of data. It is more suitable for use in configurations where the array has a backup or archival role." My understanding of this particular scare-tactic wording (its also in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and SE 3511

2006-12-19 Thread Anton Rang
On Dec 19, 2006, at 7:14 AM, Mike Seda wrote: Anton B. Rang wrote: I have a Sun SE 3511 array with 5 x 500 GB SATA-I disks in a RAID 5. This 2 TB logical drive is partitioned into 10 x 200GB slices. I gave 4 of these slices to a Solaris 10 U2 machine and added each of them to a concat (non

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and SE 3511

2006-12-19 Thread Mike Seda
Anton B. Rang wrote: I have a Sun SE 3511 array with 5 x 500 GB SATA-I disks in a RAID 5. This 2 TB logical drive is partitioned into 10 x 200GB slices. I gave 4 of these slices to a Solaris 10 U2 machine and added each of them to a concat (non-raid) zpool as listed below: This is certain

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and SE 3511

2006-12-18 Thread Anton B. Rang
> I have a Sun SE 3511 array with 5 x 500 GB SATA-I disks in a RAID 5. This > 2 TB logical drive is partitioned into 10 x 200GB slices. I gave 4 of these > slices to a > Solaris 10 U2 machine and added each of them to a concat (non-raid) zpool as > listed below: This is certainly a supportable