Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & HW RAID

2009-09-19 Thread Orvar Korvar
I asked the same question about one year ago here, and the posts poured in. Search for my user id? There is more info in that thread about which is best: ZFS vs ZFS+HWraid -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & HW RAID

2009-09-18 Thread Erik Trimble
All this reminds me: how much work (if any) has been done on the "asyncronous" mirroring option? That is, for supporting mirrors with radically different access times? (useful for supporting a mirror across a WAN, where you have hundred(s)-millisecond latency to the other side of the mirro

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & HW RAID

2009-09-18 Thread Scott Lawson
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, David Magda wrote: If you care to keep your pool up and alive as much as possible, then mirroring across SAN devices is recommended. One suggestion I heard was to get a LUN that's twice the size, and set "copies=2". This way you have some redund

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & HW RAID

2009-09-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, David Magda wrote: If you care to keep your pool up and alive as much as possible, then mirroring across SAN devices is recommended. One suggestion I heard was to get a LUN that's twice the size, and set "copies=2". This way you have some redundancy for incorrect checksu

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & HW RAID

2009-09-18 Thread David Magda
On Sep 18, 2009, at 16:52, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: If you care to keep your pool up and alive as much as possible, then mirroring across SAN devices is recommended. One suggestion I heard was to get a LUN that's twice the size, and set "copies=2". This way you have some redundancy for incorr

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & HW RAID

2009-09-18 Thread Robert Milkowski
Scott Lawson wrote: Sun Directory environment generally isn't very IO intensive, except for in massive data reloads or indexing operations. Other than this it is an ideal candidate for ZFS and it's rather nice ARC cache. Memory is cheap on a lot of boxes and it will make read only type file sys

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & HW RAID

2009-09-18 Thread Scott Lawson
Lloyd H. Gill wrote: Hello folks, I am sure this topic has been asked, but I am new to this list. I have read a ton of doc's on the web, but wanted to get some opinions from you all. Also, if someone has a digest of the last time this was discussed, you can just send that to me. In any cas

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & HW RAID

2009-09-18 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hi, see comments inline: Lloyd H. Gill wrote: Hello folks, I am sure this topic has been asked, but I am new to this list. I have read a ton of doc’s on the web, but wanted to get some opinions from you all. Also, if someone has a digest of the last time this was discussed, you can just se

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & HW RAID

2009-09-18 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, Lloyd H. Gill wrote: The Sun docs seem to indicate it possible, but not a recommended course. I realize there are some advantages, such as snapshots, etc. But, the h/w raid will handle most disk problems, basically reducing the great capabilities of the big reasons to deploy

[zfs-discuss] ZFS & HW RAID

2009-09-18 Thread Lloyd H. Gill
Hello folks, I am sure this topic has been asked, but I am new to this list. I have read a ton of doc¹s on the web, but wanted to get some opinions from you all. Also, if someone has a digest of the last time this was discussed, you can just send that to me. In any case, I am reading a lot of mix