Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Setting up for zfsboot

2007-04-05 Thread Roch Bourbonnais
Le 5 avr. 07 à 08:28, Robert Milkowski a écrit : Hello Matthew, Thursday, April 5, 2007, 1:08:25 AM, you wrote: MA> Lori Alt wrote: Can write-cache not be turned on manually as the user is sure that it is only ZFS that is using the entire disk? yes it can be turned on. But I don't know

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Setting up for zfsboot

2007-04-05 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Adam, Wednesday, April 4, 2007, 11:41:58 PM, you wrote: AL> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:04:06PM +0200, Robert Milkowski wrote: >> If I stop all activity to x4500 with a pool made of several raidz2 and >> then I issue spare attach I get really poor performance (1-2MB/s) on a >> pool with lot

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Setting up for zfsboot

2007-04-05 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Matthew, Thursday, April 5, 2007, 1:08:25 AM, you wrote: MA> Lori Alt wrote: >> >>> Can write-cache not be turned on manually as the user is sure that it is >>> only ZFS that is using the entire disk? >>> >>> >>> yes it can be turned on. But I don't know if ZFS would then know about it.

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Setting up for zfsboot

2007-04-04 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Adam, Wednesday, April 4, 2007, 7:08:07 PM, you wrote: AL> On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:34:13PM +0200, Constantin Gonzalez wrote: >> - RAID-Z is _very_ slow when one disk is broken. AL> Do you have data on this? The reconstruction should be relatively cheap AL> especially when compared with

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] Setting up for zfsboot

2007-04-04 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Constantin, Wednesday, April 4, 2007, 3:34:13 PM, you wrote: CG> - RAID-Z is slow when writing, you basically get only one disk's bandwidth. CG> (Yes, with variable block sizes this might be slightly better...) No, it's not. It's actually very fast for writing, in many cases it would be