Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on solid state as disk rather than L2ARC...

2010-09-15 Thread Richard Jahnel
14x 256gb MLC SSDs in a raidz2 array have worked fine for us. Performace seems to be mostly limited by the raid controller in operating in JBOD mode. Raidz2 allows sufficient redundancy to replace any MLC drives that develop issues and when you have that many consumer level SSDs, some will devel

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on solid state as disk rather than L2ARC...

2010-09-15 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Brad Diggs wrote: > Has anyone done much testing of just using the solid state devices (F20 or > F5100) as > devices for ZFS pools? Are there any concerns with running in this mode > versus using > solid state devices for L2ARC cache? > Depending on the configu

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on solid state as disk rather than L2ARC...

2010-09-15 Thread Matt Cowger
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:27 PM To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on solid state as disk rather than L2ARC... Has anyone done much testing of just using the solid state devices (F20 or F5100) as devices for ZFS pools? Are there any concerns with running in this mode ver

[zfs-discuss] ZFS on solid state as disk rather than L2ARC...

2010-09-15 Thread Brad Diggs
Has anyone done much testing of just using the solid state devices (F20 or F5100) as devices for ZFS pools?  Are there any concerns with running in this mode versus usingsolid state devices for L2ARC cache?Second, has anyone done this sort of testing with MLC based solid state drives?What has your