>-Original Message-
>From: Brandon High [mailto:bh...@freaks.com]
>Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 5:56 PM
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>On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
>> Doesn't this alignment have more to do with aligning writes to the
>> stripe/segment size of a traditional storage array? The
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
> Doesn't this alignment have more to do with aligning writes to the
> stripe/segment size of a traditional storage array? The articles I am
It is a lot like a stripe / segment size. If you want to think of it
in those terms, you've got a segm
>-Original Message-
>From: Brandon High [mailto:bh...@freaks.com]
>Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 3:12 PM
>
>On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
>> You are right, I didn't look at that property, and instead I was
>> focused on the record size property.
>
>zvols don't have a
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
> You are right, I didn't look at that property, and instead I was focused on
> the record size property.
zvols don't have a recordsize - That's a property of filesystem
datasets, not volumes.
> When I look at the stmfadm llift-lu -v it s
>-Original Message-
>From: Brandon High [mailto:bh...@freaks.com]
>Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:55 AM
>
>On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
>> I am looking at using 8K block size on the zfs volume.
>
>8k is the default for zvols.
>
You are right, I didn't look at that p
- "Brandon High" skrev:
> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
> > I am looking at using 8K block size on the zfs volume.
>
> 8k is the default for zvols.
So with a 1TB zbol with default blocksize, dedup is done on 8k blocks? If so,
some 32 gigs of memory (or l2arc) will be
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
> I am looking at using 8K block size on the zfs volume.
8k is the default for zvols.
> I was looking at the comstar iscsi settings and there is also a blk size
> configuration, which defaults as 512 bytes. That would make me believe that
> all