Hi Luke, I wonder if it is the HBA. We had issues with Solaris and LSI HBAs back when we were using an Xserve RAID.
Haven't had any of the issues you're describing between our LSI array and the Qlogic HBAs we're using now. If you have another type of HBA I'd try it. MPXIO and ZFS haven't ever caused what you're seeing for us. -J On 12/7/06, Luke Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jason, I am no longer looking at not using STMS multipathing because without STMS you loose the binding to the array and I loose all transmissions between the server and array. The binding does come back after a few minutes but this is not acceptable in our environment. Load times vary depending on my configuration. Senario 1: No STMS: Really fast zpool create and zpool import/export. Less then 1 second for create/export and 5-15 seconds for an import. Senario 2:STMS(mpxio)enabled and no blacks being used to LUN masking: zpool create takes 5-15 seconds, zpool imports take from 5-7 minutes. Senario 3: STMS enabled and blacklists enabled via /kernel/drv/fp.conf: It look at least 15 minutes to do a "zpool create" before I finially stopped it. This does not appear to be a viable solution. If you have any ideas about how to improve performance I am all ears. I'm not sure why ZFS takes so long to create pools with STMS? Does anyone have problems using LSI arrays. I already had problems using my LSI HBA with ZFS because the LSI HBA does not work with the Leadville stack. R/ ljs > Hi Luke, > > That's terrific! > > You know you might be able to tell ZFS which disks > to look at. I'm not > sure. It would be interesting, if anyone with a > Thumper could comment > on whether or not they see the import time issue. > What are your load > times now with MPXIO? > > Best Regards, > Jason > This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
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