Jeff Bonwick wrote:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roch?entry=when_to_and_not_to
thanks, that is very useful information. it pretty much rules out raid-z
for this workload with any reasonable configuration I can dream up
with only 12 disks available. it looks like mirroring is g
> > http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roch?entry=when_to_and_not_to
>
> thanks, that is very useful information. it pretty much rules out raid-z
> for this workload with any reasonable configuration I can dream up
> with only 12 disks available. it looks like mirroring is going to
> provide hig
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:28:12PM +0200, Roch Bourbonnais - Performance
Engineering wrote:
> Hi Grant, this may provide some guidance for your setup;
>
> it's somewhat theoretical (take it for what it's worth) but
> it spells out some of the tradeoffs in the RAID-Z vs Mirror
> battle:
>
>
>
For things like the 3510FC which (can) have Hardware Raid, I've been
hearing that ZFS is preferable to the HW RAID controller to define
arrays. I understand the rational and logic behind these arguments.
However, most HW RAID controllers have a large amount of NVRAM, which
_really_ helps write per
Hi Grant, this may provide some guidance for your setup;
it's somewhat theoretical (take it for what it's worth) but
it spells out some of the tradeoffs in the RAID-Z vs Mirror
battle:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roch?entry=when_to_and_not_to
As for serving NFS, the user e
Hello grant,
Wednesday, May 31, 2006, 4:11:09 AM, you wrote:
gb> hi all,
gb> I am hoping to move roughly 1TB of maildir format email to ZFS, but
gb> I am unsure of what the most appropriate disk configuration on a 3510
gb> would be.
gb> based on the desired level of redundancy and usable space,
