Re: ZFS pools of consisting of several mirrors
2009/12/1 Rolf Nielsen listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 01), Rolf Nielsen said: In experimenting a bit with ZFS, I, among other things, tried something like this zpool create -R /test test mirror file[01]0 mirror file[01]1 mirror file[01]2 mirror file[01]3 mirror file[01]4 mirror file[01]5 This, according to zpool status, gives me a (file backed) pool consisting of six mirrors, each mirror consisting of two files. Now for my question. Exactly how is the pool built? Is it... 1. A RAID0 of the six mirrors? 2. A mirror of two RAID0 arrays, each array consisting of the six files file0[0-5] and file1[0-5] respectively? 3 and 4. Like 1 and 2 above, but with JBOD instead of RAID0? 5. Some other way I haven't thought about? I guess it's 1 or 3, as the zpool status output shows me six mirrors, but which is it? And, provided my guess is correct, is there a way to implement 2 or 4 without involving geom_stripe or geom_concat? It's 1/3/5. Each mirror is independant, and writes are balanced across the mirrors based on space usage. If you add another mirror to grow the pool, it will get most of the writes until the usages balance out. You usually don't want to build an array with options 2 or 4, since a single drive failure will degrade the entire mirror half. Consider if you have concat00 - file01 file02 file03 file04 file05 concat01 - file11 file12 file13 file14 file15 mirror0 - concat0 concat1 If file01 fails, concat00 fails, causing mirror0 to become degraded. When you replace file01, mirror0 will have to resynch all of concat00 from concat01 since it doesn't know about the subdevices. If you don't replace file01, and then file15 fails, you have lost your entire volume (unless you do some hackery to swap file05 and file15 to create a functioning concat01). Good point. Thanks for the reply. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org its RAID 1+0 or raid 10. ZFS stripes across all vnodes added to a pool rather than attached. In your case your vnodes were raid 1, but they could have been raidz(23) giving you raid 50, 60, and 70(?). Or they could be individual vdevs giving your pure raid0. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ZFS pools of consisting of several mirrors
Hello, In experimenting a bit with ZFS, I, among other things, tried something like this zpool create -R /test test mirror file[01]0 mirror file[01]1 mirror file[01]2 mirror file[01]3 mirror file[01]4 mirror file[01]5 This, according to zpool status, gives me a (file backed) pool consisting of six mirrors, each mirror consisting of two files. Now for my question. Exactly how is the pool built? Is it... 1. A RAID0 of the six mirrors? 2. A mirror of two RAID0 arrays, each array consisting of the six files file0[0-5] and file1[0-5] respectively? 3 and 4. Like 1 and 2 above, but with JBOD instead of RAID0? 5. Some other way I haven't thought about? I guess it's 1 or 3, as the zpool status output shows me six mirrors, but which is it? And, provided my guess is correct, is there a way to implement 2 or 4 without involving geom_stripe or geom_concat? Sincerely, Rolf Nielsen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS pools of consisting of several mirrors
In the last episode (Dec 01), Rolf Nielsen said: In experimenting a bit with ZFS, I, among other things, tried something like this zpool create -R /test test mirror file[01]0 mirror file[01]1 mirror file[01]2 mirror file[01]3 mirror file[01]4 mirror file[01]5 This, according to zpool status, gives me a (file backed) pool consisting of six mirrors, each mirror consisting of two files. Now for my question. Exactly how is the pool built? Is it... 1. A RAID0 of the six mirrors? 2. A mirror of two RAID0 arrays, each array consisting of the six files file0[0-5] and file1[0-5] respectively? 3 and 4. Like 1 and 2 above, but with JBOD instead of RAID0? 5. Some other way I haven't thought about? I guess it's 1 or 3, as the zpool status output shows me six mirrors, but which is it? And, provided my guess is correct, is there a way to implement 2 or 4 without involving geom_stripe or geom_concat? It's 1/3/5. Each mirror is independant, and writes are balanced across the mirrors based on space usage. If you add another mirror to grow the pool, it will get most of the writes until the usages balance out. You usually don't want to build an array with options 2 or 4, since a single drive failure will degrade the entire mirror half. Consider if you have concat00 - file01 file02 file03 file04 file05 concat01 - file11 file12 file13 file14 file15 mirror0 - concat0 concat1 If file01 fails, concat00 fails, causing mirror0 to become degraded. When you replace file01, mirror0 will have to resynch all of concat00 from concat01 since it doesn't know about the subdevices. If you don't replace file01, and then file15 fails, you have lost your entire volume (unless you do some hackery to swap file05 and file15 to create a functioning concat01). -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS pools of consisting of several mirrors
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 01), Rolf Nielsen said: In experimenting a bit with ZFS, I, among other things, tried something like this zpool create -R /test test mirror file[01]0 mirror file[01]1 mirror file[01]2 mirror file[01]3 mirror file[01]4 mirror file[01]5 This, according to zpool status, gives me a (file backed) pool consisting of six mirrors, each mirror consisting of two files. Now for my question. Exactly how is the pool built? Is it... 1. A RAID0 of the six mirrors? 2. A mirror of two RAID0 arrays, each array consisting of the six files file0[0-5] and file1[0-5] respectively? 3 and 4. Like 1 and 2 above, but with JBOD instead of RAID0? 5. Some other way I haven't thought about? I guess it's 1 or 3, as the zpool status output shows me six mirrors, but which is it? And, provided my guess is correct, is there a way to implement 2 or 4 without involving geom_stripe or geom_concat? It's 1/3/5. Each mirror is independant, and writes are balanced across the mirrors based on space usage. If you add another mirror to grow the pool, it will get most of the writes until the usages balance out. You usually don't want to build an array with options 2 or 4, since a single drive failure will degrade the entire mirror half. Consider if you have concat00 - file01 file02 file03 file04 file05 concat01 - file11 file12 file13 file14 file15 mirror0 - concat0 concat1 If file01 fails, concat00 fails, causing mirror0 to become degraded. When you replace file01, mirror0 will have to resynch all of concat00 from concat01 since it doesn't know about the subdevices. If you don't replace file01, and then file15 fails, you have lost your entire volume (unless you do some hackery to swap file05 and file15 to create a functioning concat01). Good point. Thanks for the reply. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
