On May 24, 2010, at 4:06 AM, Demian Phillips wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Torrey McMahon <tmcmah...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> On 5/23/2010 11:49 AM, Richard Elling wrote: >>> >>> FWIW, the A5100 went end-of-life (EOL) in 2001 and end-of-service-life >>> (EOSL) in 2006. Personally, I hate them with a passion and would like to >>> extend an offer to use my tractor to bury the beast:-). >> >> I'm sure I can get some others to help. Can I smash the gbics? Those were my >> favorite. :-) >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >> > > I'd be more then happy to take someone up on the offer but I'd need a > good deal on more current FC array. Since this is my home environment > I am limited by my insignificant pay and the wife factor (who does > indulge me from time to time). Without a corporate IT budget I make do > with everything from free to what I can afford used. > > To be honest I'd rather be using an IBM DS4K series array. > > Current stress test is creating 700 (50% of array capacity) 1GB files > from /dev/urandom and then I will scrub.
Unfortunately, /dev/urandom is too slow for direct stress testing. It can be used as a seed for random data files that are then used for stress testing. -- richard -- ZFS and NexentaStor training, Rotterdam, July 13-15, 2010 http://nexenta-rotterdam.eventbrite.com/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
