Hello Victor,

Thursday, May 10, 2007, 11:26:35 AM, you wrote:

VL> Robert Milkowski wrote:
>> Hello Leon,
>> 
>> Thursday, May 10, 2007, 10:43:27 AM, you wrote:
>> 
>> LM> Hello,
>> 
>> LM> I've got some weird problem: ZFS does not seem to be utilizing
>> LM> all disks in my pool properly. For some reason, it's only using 2 of the 
>> 3 disks in my pool:
>> 
>> LM>                capacity     operations    bandwidth
>> LM> pool         used  avail   read  write   read  write
>> LM> ----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
>> LM> database    8.48G  1.35T    202      0  12.4M      0
>> LM>   c0t1d0    4.30G   460G    103      0  6.21M      0
>> LM>   c0t3d0    4.12G   460G     96      0  6.00M      0
>> LM>   c0t2d0    54.9M   464G      2      0   190K      0
>> LM> ----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
>> 
>> LM> I've added all the disks at the same time, so it's not like the
>> LM> last disk was added later. Any ideas on what might be causing this ? I'm 
>> using solaris express b62.
>> LM>  
>> 
>> Your third disks is 4GB larger that first two disks and ZFS tries to
>> "load-balance" data so that you can fill up all devices. As you've
>> already have about 4GB on each of the first two disks ZFS should start
>> to use third disks after copying addtitional data.

VL> No, it is not - other two disks have 4G out of 464G used, and disk in 
VL> question has only 55M used. So for me it does not look like weighting 
VL> problem. This is something else I believe.

VL> I'm not sure but i suspect this may be somehow related to meta data 
VL> allocation, given that ZFS stores two copies for file system meta data.
VL> But this is nothing more than a wild guess.

VL> Leon, What kind of data is stored in this pool? What Solaris version are
VL> you using? How is your pool configured?

Yep, that's available space not a size - you're right, my fault.


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