Re: [zfs-discuss] getting decent NFS performance

2009-12-23 Thread Marion Hakanson
erik.trim...@sun.com said: > The suggestion was to make the SSD on each machine an iSCSI volume, and add > the two volumes as a mirrored ZIL into the zpool. I've mentioned the following before For a poor-person's slog which gives decent NFS performance, we have had good results with allocat

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting decent NFS performance

2009-12-23 Thread Erik Trimble
Andrey Kuzmin wrote: And how do you expect the mirrored iSCSI volume to work after failover, with secondary (ex-primary) unreachable? Regards, Andrey As a normal Degraded mirror. No problem. The suggestion was to make the SSD on each machine an iSCSI volume, and add the two volumes as a

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting decent NFS performance

2009-12-23 Thread Andrey Kuzmin
And how do you expect the mirrored iSCSI volume to work after failover, with secondary (ex-primary) unreachable? Regards, Andrey On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: > Charles Hedrick wrote: >> >> Is ISCSI reliable enough for this? >> > > YES. > > The original idea is a good o

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting decent NFS performance

2009-12-22 Thread Erik Trimble
Charles Hedrick wrote: Is ISCSI reliable enough for this? YES. The original idea is a good one, and one that I'd not thought of. The (old) iSCSI implementation is quite mature, if not anywhere as nice (feature/flexibility-wise) as the new COMSTAR stuff. I'm thinking that just putting in

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting decent NFS performance

2009-12-22 Thread Charles Hedrick
Is ISCSI reliable enough for this? -- 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] getting decent NFS performance

2009-12-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 22, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Bob Friesenhahn > wrote: On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Ross Walker wrote: I think zil_disable may actually make sense. How about a zil comprised of two mirrored iSCSI vdevs formed from a SSD on each box? I would not have believed that this is a useful idea except that

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting decent NFS performance

2009-12-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Ross Walker wrote: I think zil_disable may actually make sense. How about a zil comprised of two mirrored iSCSI vdevs formed from a SSD on each box? I would not have believed that this is a useful idea except that I have seen "IOPS offload" to a server on the network w

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting decent NFS performance

2009-12-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 22, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Dec 22, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Charles Hedrick wrote: It turns out that our storage is currently being used for * backups of various kinds, run daily by cron jobs * saving old log files from our production application * saving old versions o

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting decent NFS performance

2009-12-22 Thread Richard Elling
On Dec 22, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Charles Hedrick wrote: It turns out that our storage is currently being used for * backups of various kinds, run daily by cron jobs * saving old log files from our production application * saving old versions of java files from our production application Most of th

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting decent NFS performance

2009-12-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 22, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Charles Hedrick wrote: It turns out that our storage is currently being used for * backups of various kinds, run daily by cron jobs * saving old log files from our production application * saving old versions of java files from our production application Most of

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting decent NFS performance

2009-12-22 Thread Charles Hedrick
It turns out that our storage is currently being used for * backups of various kinds, run daily by cron jobs * saving old log files from our production application * saving old versions of java files from our production application Most of the usage is write-only, and a fair amount of it involves

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting decent NFS performance

2009-12-22 Thread Charles Hedrick
Thanks. That's what I was looking for. Yikes! I hadn't realized how expensive the Zeus is. We're using Solaris cluster, so if the system goes down, the other one takes over. That means that if the ZIL is on a local disk, we lose it in a crash. Might as well just set zil_disable (something I'm c

Re: [zfs-discuss] getting decent NFS performance

2009-12-22 Thread Erik Trimble
Charles Hedrick wrote: We have a server using Solaris 10. It's a pair of systems with a shared J4200, with Solaris cluster. It works very nicely. Solaris cluster switches over transparently. However as an NFS server it is dog-slow. This is the usual synchronous write problem. Setting zfs_disa

[zfs-discuss] getting decent NFS performance

2009-12-22 Thread Charles Hedrick
We have a server using Solaris 10. It's a pair of systems with a shared J4200, with Solaris cluster. It works very nicely. Solaris cluster switches over transparently. However as an NFS server it is dog-slow. This is the usual synchronous write problem. Setting zfs_disable fixes the problem. ot