Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & se6920

2006-08-28 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
On 8/28/06, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Saturday, August 26, 2006, 6:43:05 PM, you wrote: WYT> Thanks to all who have responded. I spent 2 weekends working through WYT> the best practices tthat Jerome recommended -- it's quite a mouthful. WYT> On 8/17/06, Roch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & se6920

2006-08-28 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Wee, Saturday, August 26, 2006, 6:43:05 PM, you wrote: WYT> Thanks to all who have responded. I spent 2 weekends working through WYT> the best practices tthat Jerome recommended -- it's quite a mouthful. WYT> On 8/17/06, Roch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My general principles are: >> >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & se6920

2006-08-26 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
Thanks to all who have responded. I spent 2 weekends working through the best practices tthat Jerome recommended -- it's quite a mouthful. On 8/17/06, Roch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My general principles are: If you can, to improve you 'Availability' metrics, let ZFS handle on

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & se6920

2006-08-17 Thread Roch
Robert Milkowski writes: > Hello Roch, > > Thursday, August 17, 2006, 11:08:37 AM, you wrote: > R> My general principles are: > > R> If you can, to improve you 'Availability' metrics, > R> let ZFS handle one level of redundancy; > > R> For Random Read performanc

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & se6920

2006-08-17 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Roch, Thursday, August 17, 2006, 11:08:37 AM, you wrote: R> My general principles are: R> If you can, to improve you 'Availability' metrics, R> let ZFS handle one level of redundancy; R> For Random Read performance prefer mirrors over R> raid-z. If you use

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & se6920

2006-08-17 Thread Roch
WYT said: Hi all, My company will be acquiring the Sun SE6920 for our storage virtualization project and we intend to use quite a bit of ZFS as well. The 2 technologies seems somewhat at odds since the 6920 means layers of hardware abstraction but ZFS seems to prefer more direct acc

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & se6920

2006-08-16 Thread Torrey McMahon
Wee Yeh Tan wrote: Hi all, My company will be acquiring the Sun SE6920 for our storage virtualization project and we intend to use quite a bit of ZFS as well. The 2 technologies seems somewhat at odds since the 6920 means layers of hardware abstraction but ZFS seems to prefer more direct access

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & se6920

2006-08-16 Thread Jerome Haynes-Smith
On Wednesday 16 August 2006 11:55, Wee Yeh Tan wrote: > Hi all, > > My company will be acquiring the Sun SE6920 for our storage > virtualization project and we intend to use quite a bit of ZFS as > well. The 2 technologies seems somewhat at odds since the 6920 means > layers of hardware abstractio

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS & se6920

2006-08-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Wee Yeh Tan wrote: My company will be acquiring the Sun SE6920 for our storage virtualization project and we intend to use quite a bit of ZFS as well. The 2 technologies seems somewhat at odds since the 6920 means layers of hardware abstraction but ZFS seems to prefer more direct access to disk.

[zfs-discuss] ZFS & se6920

2006-08-16 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
Hi all, My company will be acquiring the Sun SE6920 for our storage virtualization project and we intend to use quite a bit of ZFS as well. The 2 technologies seems somewhat at odds since the 6920 means layers of hardware abstraction but ZFS seems to prefer more direct access to disk. I tried t