Re: [zfs-discuss] Zil on multiple usb keys

2011-07-16 Thread Tiernan OToole
Well, not knowing a lot about these, but if the flash stick is based on SSD, then it might work well, but if its just a standard USB key rebundled as a eSATA disk, maybe not... On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 04:21:13PM +, Tiernan OToole wrote: >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zil on multiple usb keys

2011-07-16 Thread Tiernan OToole
Thanks for the info. need to rebuild my machine and ZFS pool kind of new to this and realized i built it as a stripe, not a mirror... also, want to add extra disks... As a follow up question: I have 2 500Gb internal drives and 2 300Gb USB drives. If i where to create a 2 pools, a 300Gb and a

Re: [zfs-discuss] (Zil on multiple usb keys) Mirroring the pool

2011-07-16 Thread Craig Cory
Tiernan, Depending on how you have created your current pool, you *may* be able to add the mirroring without rebuilding it. Each disk in the stripe can have a second disk of equal size attached to it to form a mirrored component, or vdev. So if your pool has 2 500GB drives, attach another 500GB dr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zil on multiple usb keys

2011-07-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: Tiernan OToole [mailto:lsmart...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 7:46 AM > > I have 2 500Gb internal drives and 2 300Gb USB drives. If i where to create a 2 > pools, a 300Gb and a 500Gb in each, and then mirror over them, would that > work? is it even posible? or what would you

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zil on multiple usb keys

2011-07-16 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-07-16 15:46, Tiernan OToole ?: Thanks for the info. need to rebuild my machine and ZFS pool kind of new to this and realized i built it as a stripe, not a mirror... also, want to add extra disks... As a follow up question: I have 2 500Gb internal drives and 2 300Gb USB drives. If

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zil on multiple usb keys

2011-07-16 Thread Tiernan OToole
So, i like the sound of that, but the box is a very frankinbox like... it has 2 SATA ports, one used for the boot drive, one for one of the 500s... the second 500Gb is IDE. The 2 USB drives both internally are SATA, so pulling one and plugging it internally wont work that well... but thats for the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zil on multiple usb keys

2011-07-16 Thread Tiernan OToole
thats not a typo... I was thinking 2 pools, 800gb each, and mirrored... think i should mess around with this setup a bit more and see what i can get working... might work better if i just move them into a new enclosure... we see what happens... Thanks for the info on the USB drives... if the ZIL d

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zil on multiple usb keys

2011-07-16 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-07-16 18:48, Tiernan OToole пишет: thats not a typo... I was thinking 2 pools, 800gb each, and mirrored... think i should mess around with this setup a bit more and see what i can get working... might work better if i just move them into a new enclosure... we see what happens... Well,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zil on multiple usb keys

2011-07-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov > > Well, in terms of mirroring over stripes, if any component of any > stripe > breaks, > the whole half of the mirror is degraded. If another drive from another > half > also break

[zfs-discuss] latest zpool version in solaris 11 express

2011-07-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
I recently installed a system, but it seems like the system update process isn't working right, or else I have wrong expectations. What I really want is to ensure I have the latest... It says zpool version 31 and zfs version 5. Can anybody please confirm or deny that this is the absolute late

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS acl inherit problem

2011-07-16 Thread Sigbjorn Lie
Hi, Set the zfs properties aclmode *and* aclinherit properties to passthrough for the dataset you're writing to. This works for me having both Windows clients using cifs, and Linux clients using nfs. Regards, Siggi On 06/01/2011 08:51 AM, lance wilson wrote: The problem is that nfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] latest zpool version in solaris 11 express

2011-07-16 Thread Maurice R Volaski
>>It says zpool version 31 and zfs version 5. Can anybody please confirm >>or >deny that this is the absolute latest version available to the public in >any >way? It's the latest on my copy. > > > >I have a support contract, but there doesn't seem to be any updates >available, which doesn't s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zil on multiple usb keys

2011-07-16 Thread Jim Klimov
2011-07-16 20:42, Edward Ned Harvey пишет: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov Well, in terms of mirroring over stripes, if any component of any stripe breaks, the whole half of the mirror is degraded. If another drive f

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pure SSD Pool

2011-07-16 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Tue, Jul 12 at 23:44, Jim Klimov wrote: 2011-07-12 23:14, Eric Sproul пишет: So finding drives that keep more space in reserve is key to getting consistent performance under ZFS. I think I've read in a number of early SSD reviews (possibly regarding Intel devices - not certain now) that the

Re: [zfs-discuss] latest zpool version in solaris 11 express

2011-07-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Maurice R Volaski > > You need to point to the support repository and install a certificate. > > /usr/bin/pkg set-publisher -k > /var/pkg/ssl/Oracle_Solaris_11_Express_Support.key.pem \ > -c