Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-13 Thread Hatish Narotam
Hi, *The PCIE 8x port gives me 4GBps, which is 32Gbps. No problem there. Each ESata port guarantees 3Gbps, therefore 12Gbps limit on the controller.* I was simply listing the bandwidth available at the different stages of the data cycle. The PCIE port gives me 32Gbps. The Sata card gives me a pos

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-13 Thread Hatish Narotam
A, I see. But I think your math is a bit out: 62.5e6 iop @ 100iops = 625000 seconds = 10416m = 173h = 7D6h. So 7 days & 6 hours. Thats long, but I can live with it. This isnt for an enterprise environment. While the length of time is of worry in terms of increasing the chance another drive wi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-13 Thread Hatish Narotam
Mattias, what you say makes a lot of sense. When I saw *Both of the above situations resilver in equal time*, I was like "no way!" But like you said, assuming no bus bottlenecks. This is my exact breakdown (cheap disks on cheap bus :P) : PCI-E 8X 4-port ESata Raid Controller. 4 x ESata to 5Sata P

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-13 Thread Hatish Narotam
Makes sense. My understanding is not good enough to confidently make my own decisions, and I'm learning as Im going. The BPG says: - The recommended number of disks per group is between 3 and 9. If you have more disks, use multiple groups If there was a reason leading up to this statement,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-10 Thread Richard Elling
On Sep 9, 2010, at 6:39 AM, Marty Scholes wrote: > Erik wrote: >> Actually, your biggest bottleneck will be the IOPS >> limits of the >> drives. A 7200RPM SATA drive tops out at 100 IOPS. >> Yup. That's it. >> So, if you need to do 62.5e6 IOPS, and the rebuild >> drive can do just 100 >> IOPS,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-09 Thread hatish
Ahhh! So thats how the formula works. That makes perfect sense. Lets take my case as a scenario: Each of my vdevs is 10 disk RaidZ2 (8 data + 2 Parity). Using 128K stripe, I'll have 128K/8 = 16K blocks per data drive & 16K blocks per parity drive. That fits both 512B & 4KB. It works in my favo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Haudy Kazemi [mailto:kaze0...@umn.edu] > > There is another optimization in the Best Practices Guide that says the > number of devices in a vdev should be (N+P) with P = 1 (raidz), 2 > (raidz2), or 3 (raidz3) and N equals 2, 4, or 8. > I.e. 2^N + P where N is 1, 2, or 3 and P is the RAIDZ l

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-09 Thread Haudy Kazemi
Erik Trimble wrote: On 9/9/2010 2:15 AM, taemun wrote: Erik: does that mean that keeping the number of data drives in a raidz(n) to a power of two is better? In the example you gave, you mentioned 14kb being written to each drive. That doesn't sound very efficient to me. (when I say the abo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-09 Thread Haudy Kazemi
Comment at end... Mattias Pantzare wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 15:27, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: pantz...@gmail.com [mailto:pantz...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mattias Pantzare It is about 1 vdev with 12 disk or 2 vdev with 6 disks. If you have 2 vdev you have to read half the data com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-09 Thread Erik Trimble
On 9/9/2010 6:19 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Erik Trimble the thing that folks tend to forget is that RaidZ is IOPS limited. For the most part, if I want to reconstruct a single slab (stripe)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-09 Thread Marty Scholes
Erik wrote: > Actually, your biggest bottleneck will be the IOPS > limits of the > drives. A 7200RPM SATA drive tops out at 100 IOPS. > Yup. That's it. > So, if you need to do 62.5e6 IOPS, and the rebuild > drive can do just 100 > IOPS, that means you will finish (best case) in > 62.5e4 seconds

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > The characteristic that *really* makes a big difference is the number > of > slabs in the pool. i.e. if your filesystem is composed of mostly small > files or fragments,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Hatish Narotam [mailto:hat...@gmail.com] > > PCI-E 8X 4-port ESata Raid Controller. > 4 x ESata to 5Sata Port multipliers (each connected to a ESata port on > the controller). > 20 x Samsung 1TB HDD's. (each connected to a Port Multiplier). Assuming your disks can all sustain 500Mbit/sec,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Erik Trimble > > the thing that folks tend to forget is that RaidZ is IOPS limited. For > the most part, if I want to reconstruct a single slab (stripe) of data, > I have to issue a read to EA

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-09 Thread Will Murnane
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 09:03, Erik Trimble wrote: > Actually, your biggest bottleneck will be the IOPS limits of the drives.  A > 7200RPM SATA drive tops out at 100 IOPS.  Yup. That's it. > > So, if you need to do 62.5e6 IOPS, and the rebuild drive can do just 100 > IOPS, that means you will finis

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-09 Thread Erik Trimble
On 9/9/2010 5:49 AM, hatish wrote: Very interesting... Well, lets see if we can do the numbers for my setup. From a previous post of mine: [i]This is my exact breakdown (cheap disks on cheap bus :P) : PCI-E 8X 4-port ESata Raid Controller. 4 x ESata to 5Sata Port multipliers (each connected

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-09 Thread Erik Trimble
On 9/9/2010 5:49 AM, hatish wrote: Very interesting... Well, lets see if we can do the numbers for my setup. From a previous post of mine: [i]This is my exact breakdown (cheap disks on cheap bus :P) : PCI-E 8X 4-port ESata Raid Controller. 4 x ESata to 5Sata Port multipliers (each connected

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-09 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Freddie Cash > > No, it (21-disk raidz3 vdev) most certainly will not resilver in the > same amount of time. In fact, I highly doubt it would resilver at > all. > > My first foray into ZFS re

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-09 Thread hatish
Very interesting... Well, lets see if we can do the numbers for my setup. >From a previous post of mine: [i]This is my exact breakdown (cheap disks on cheap bus :P) : PCI-E 8X 4-port ESata Raid Controller. 4 x ESata to 5Sata Port multipliers (each connected to a ESata port on the controller).

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-09 Thread Erik Trimble
On 9/9/2010 2:15 AM, taemun wrote: Erik: does that mean that keeping the number of data drives in a raidz(n) to a power of two is better? In the example you gave, you mentioned 14kb being written to each drive. That doesn't sound very efficient to me. (when I say the above, I mean a five dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-09 Thread taemun
Erik: does that mean that keeping the number of data drives in a raidz(n) to a power of two is better? In the example you gave, you mentioned 14kb being written to each drive. That doesn't sound very efficient to me. (when I say the above, I mean a five disk raidz or a ten disk raidz2, etc) Cheer

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-09 Thread Erik Trimble
On 9/8/2010 10:08 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Both of the above situations resilver in equal time, unless there is a bus bottleneck. 21 disks in a single raidz3 will resilver just as fast as 7 disks in a raidz1, as long as you are avoiding

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-08 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > Both of the above situations resilver in equal time, unless there is a bus > bottleneck.  21 disks in a single raidz3 will resilver just as fast as 7 > disks in a raidz1, as long as you are avoiding the bus bottleneck.  But 21 > disks in a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-08 Thread Mattias Pantzare
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 15:27, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: pantz...@gmail.com [mailto:pantz...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of >> Mattias Pantzare >> >> It >> is about 1 vdev with 12 disk or  2 vdev with 6 disks. If you have 2 >> vdev you have to read half the data compared to 1 vdev to resilver a >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-08 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: pantz...@gmail.com [mailto:pantz...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Mattias Pantzare > > It > is about 1 vdev with 12 disk or 2 vdev with 6 disks. If you have 2 > vdev you have to read half the data compared to 1 vdev to resilver a > disk. Let's suppose you have 1T of data. You have 12-disk r

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-08 Thread hatish
Rebuild time is not a concern for me. The concern with rebuilding was the stress it puts on the disks for an extended period of time (increasing the chances of another disk failure). The % of data used doesnt matter, as the system will try to get it done at max speed, thus creating the mentioned

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-07 Thread Mattias Pantzare
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 06:59, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Edward Ned Harvey >> wrote: >> >> I think the value you can take from this is: >> Why does the BPG say that?  What is the reasoning behind it? >> >> Anything that is a "rule of thumb" either has reasoning be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Edward Ned Harvey > wrote: > > I think the value you can take from this is: > Why does the BPG say that?  What is the reasoning behind it? > > Anything that is a "rule of thumb" either has reasoning behind it (you > should know the reasoning) or it doesn't (you s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-07 Thread LaoTsao 老曹
may be 5x(3+1) use one disk from each controller, 15TB usable space, 3+1 raidz rebuild time should be reasonable On 9/7/2010 4:40 AM, hatish wrote: Thanks for all the replies :) My mindset is split in two now... Some detail - I'm using 4 1-to-5 Sata Port multipliers connected to a 4-port S

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of hatish > > I have just > read the Best Practices guide, and it says your group shouldnt have > 9 > disks. I think the value you can take from this is: Why does the BPG say that? What is the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-07 Thread hatish
Thanks for all the replies :) My mindset is split in two now... Some detail - I'm using 4 1-to-5 Sata Port multipliers connected to a 4-port SATA raid card. I only need reliability and size, as long as my performance is the equivalent of one drive, Im happy. Im assuming all the data used in t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-06 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > a 7k2 drive for l2arc? It wouldn't be great, but you could put an SSD in the bay instead. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org htt

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-06 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
- Original Message - > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:53 AM, hatish wrote: > > Im setting up a server with 20x1TB disks. Initially I had thought to > > setup the disks using 2 RaidZ2 groups of 10 discs. However, I have > > just read the Best Practices guide, and it says your group shouldnt > > h

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-06 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:53 AM, hatish wrote: > Im setting up a server with 20x1TB disks. Initially I had thought to setup > the disks using 2 RaidZ2 groups of 10 discs. However, I have just read the > Best Practices guide, and it says your group shouldnt have > 9 disks. So Im > thinking a bett

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-06 Thread Orvar Korvar
Otherwise you can have 2 discs as hot spare. three 6 disc vdevs. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-06 Thread Orvar Korvar
Can you add another disk? then you have three 7 disc vdevs. (Always use raidz2.) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-06 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi On Monday 06 September 2010 17:53:44 hatish wrote: > Im setting up a server with 20x1TB disks. Initially I had thought to setup > the disks using 2 RaidZ2 groups of 10 discs. However, I have just read the > Best Practices guide, and it says your group shouldnt have > 9 disks. So > Im thinking a

[zfs-discuss] Suggested RaidZ configuration...

2010-09-06 Thread hatish
Im setting up a server with 20x1TB disks. Initially I had thought to setup the disks using 2 RaidZ2 groups of 10 discs. However, I have just read the Best Practices guide, and it says your group shouldnt have > 9 disks. So Im thinking a better configuration would be 2 x 7disk RaidZ2 + 1 x 6disk