On Mar 24, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Karl Rossing wrote: > I believe that write caching is turned off on the boot drives or is it the > controller or both?
By default, ZFS will not enable volatile write caches on disks for SMI labeled disk drives (eg boot). > Which could be a big problem. Actually, it is very rare that the synchronous write performance of a boot drive is a performance problem. Nonvolatile write caches are not a problem. > On 03/24/10 11:07, Tim Cook wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Dusan Radovanovic <dusa...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I am a complete newbie to OpenSolaris, and must to setup a ZFS NAS. I do >> have linux experience, but have never used ZFS. I have tried to install >> OpenSolaris Developer 134 on a 11TB HW RAID-5 virtual disk, but after the >> installation I can only use one 2TB disk, and I cannot partition the rest. I >> realize that maximum partition size is 2TB, but I guess the rest must be >> usable. For hardware I am using HP ProLiant DL180G6, 12 1TB disks connected >> to P212 controller in RAID-5. Could someone direct me or suggest what I am >> doing wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated. Simple. Make a small LUN, say 20GB or so, and install the OS there. -- richard ZFS storage and performance consulting at http://www.RichardElling.com ZFS training on deduplication, NexentaStor, and NAS performance Las Vegas, April 29-30, 2010 http://nexenta-vegas.eventbrite.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
