I'm also putting together a server on Solaris 10. My hardware so far: Mainboard: Tyan Tiger 230 S2507 Processors: 2 x Pentium III RAM: 512 MB PC133 ECC
Hard drives: c0d0: ST380021A (80gb PATA) c0d1: ST325062 (250gb PATA) c1d1: ST325062 (250gb PATA) Not the fastest processor-wise... I have the two 250gb drives in a zpool mirror, and here are my bonnie++ results: # bonnie++ -s 1024 -u root Version 1.93c ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- Concurrency 1 -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP stitch 1G 38 98 20397 23 16270 26 95 96 73287 52 447.2 42 During the build I did some testing and noticed that if I have the two 250gb drives on the same channel (i.e. on the same cable), performance was effectively HALVED. Switching them to separate channels brings me much closer to "raw" read performance. I also have a SII3114-based card (SIIG SC-SA4R12-S2) that I'm about to make a 400GB mirror on. I'll post results when it is done. PS: I belive you can mount ext2fs filesystems on Solaris: http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/binfiles/README.FSWfsmisc.txt This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
