Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-24 Thread Peter Eriksson
You can zpool replace a bad slog device now. From which kernel release is this implemented/working? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-23 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Sun, Aug 23 at 14:11, Tristan Ball wrote: Hang on, in reading that his initial results were 50 writes a second, with the default xfs write barriers, which to me implies that the drive is honouring the cache flush. The fact that write rate jumps so significantly when he turns off

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-23 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 23, 2009, at 12:11 AM, Tristan Ball tristan.b...@leica-microsystems.com wrote: Ross Walker wrote: [snip] We turned up our X4540s, and this same tar unpack took over 17 minutes! We disabled the ZIL for testing, and we dropped this to under 1 minute. With the X25-E as a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-23 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 23, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 23, 2009, at 12:11 AM, Tristan Ball tristan.b...@leica-microsystems.com wrote: Ross Walker wrote: [snip] We turned up our X4540s, and this same tar unpack took over 17 minutes! We disabled the ZIL for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-22 Thread Neil Perrin
On 08/20/09 06:41, Greg Mason wrote: Something our users do quite a bit of is untarring archives with a lot of small files. Also, many small, quick writes are also one of the many workloads our users have. Real-world test: our old Linux-based NFS server allowed us to unpack a particular

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 22, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Neil Perrin neil.per...@sun.com wrote: On 08/20/09 06:41, Greg Mason wrote: Something our users do quite a bit of is untarring archives with a lot of small files. Also, many small, quick writes are also one of the many workloads our users have. Real-world

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 22, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 22, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Neil Perrin neil.per...@sun.com wrote: On 08/20/09 06:41, Greg Mason wrote: Something our users do quite a bit of is untarring archives with a lot of small files. Also, many small, quick

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-20 Thread Greg Mason
who has experience with this, not just Greg. Monish - Original Message - From: Greg Mason gma...@msu.edu To: HUGE | David Stahl dst...@hugeinc.com Cc: zfs-discuss zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:04 AM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-20 Thread Roman Naumenko
Something our users do quite a bit of is untarring archives with a lot of small files. Also, many small, quick writes are also one of the many workloads our users have. Real-world test: our old Linux-based NFS server allowed us to unpack a particular tar file (the source for boost

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-20 Thread Greg Mason
How about the bug removing slog not possible? What if this slog fails? Is there a plan for such situation (pool becomes inaccessible in this case)? You can zpool replace a bad slog device now. -Greg ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-20 Thread Stephen Green
Greg Mason wrote: How about the bug removing slog not possible? What if this slog fails? Is there a plan for such situation (pool becomes inaccessible in this case)? You can zpool replace a bad slog device now. And I can testify that it works as described. Steve -- Stephen Green

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-20 Thread Roman Naumenko
Greg Mason wrote: How about the bug removing slog not possible? What if this slog fails? Is there a plan for such situation (pool becomes inaccessible in this case)? You can zpool replace a bad slog device now. And I can testify that it works as described. I meant this

[zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-19 Thread HUGE | David Stahl
We have a setup with ZFS/ESX/NFS and I am looking to move our zil to a solid state drive. So far I am looking into this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167013 Does anyone have any experience with this drive as a poorman¹s logzilla? And also what have other people

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-19 Thread Monish Shah
To: HUGE | David Stahl dst...@hugeinc.com Cc: zfs-discuss zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:04 AM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950 Hi David, We are using them in our Sun X4540 filers. We are actually using 2 SSDs per pool, to improve throughput (since

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950

2009-08-19 Thread Jorgen Lundman
: [zfs-discuss] Ssd for zil on a dell 2950 Hi David, We are using them in our Sun X4540 filers. We are actually using 2 SSDs per pool, to improve throughput (since the logbias feature isn't in an official release of OpenSolaris yet). I kind of wish they made an 8G or 16G part, since the 32G