Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS
That's quite a blanket statement. MANY companies (including Oracle) purchased Xserve RAID arrays for important applications because of their price point and capabilities. You easily could buy two Xserve RAIDs and mirror them for what comparable arrays of the time cost. -Aaron On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Rodrigo E. De León Plicet wrote: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/06/09/2336223/Apple-Removes-Nearly-All-Reference-To-ZFS Maybe Apple will drop the server version of OS-X and will eliminate their only server hardware (Xserve) since all it manages to do is lose money for Apple and distracts from releasing the next iPhone? Only a lunatic would rely on Apple for a mission-critical server application. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer,http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] GSoC 09 zfs ideas?
Absolutely agree. I'l love to be able to free up some LUNs that I don't need in the pool any more. Also, concatenation of devices in a zpool would be great for devices that have LUN limits. It also seems like it may be an easy thing to implement. -Aaron On 2/28/09, Thomas Wagner thomas.wag...@gmx.net wrote: pool-shrinking (and an option to shrink disk A when i want disk B to become a mirror, but A is a few blocks bigger) This may be interesting... I'm not sure how often you need to shrink a pool though? Could this be classified more as a Home or SME level feature? Enterprise level especially in SAN environments need this. Projects own theyr own pools and constantly grow and *shrink* space. And they have no downtime available for that. give a +1 if you agree Thomas ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Sent from my mobile device ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Hardware Raid Vs ZFS implementation on Sun X4150/X4450
I've done some basic testing with a X4150 machine using 6 disks in a RAID 5 and RAID Z configuration. They perform very similarly, but RAIDZ definitely has more system overhead. In many cases this won't be a big deal, but if you need as many CPU cycles as you can muster, hardware RAID may be your better choice. -Aaron On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Vikash Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Has anyone implemented the Hardware RAID 1/5 on Sun X4150/X4450 class of servers . Also any comparison between ZFS Vs H/W Raid ? I would like to know the experience (good/bad) and the pros/cons? Regards, Vikash ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk Concatenation
I actually ran into a situation where I needed to concatenate LUNs last week. In my case, the Sun 2540 storage arrays don't yet have the ability to create LUNs over 2TB, so to use all the storage within the array on one host efficiently, I created two LUNs per RAID group, for a total of 4 LUNs. Then we create two stripes (LUNs 0 and 2, 1 and 3) and concatenate them. This way the data is laid out contigously on the RAID groups. -Aaron On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Nils Goroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Darren, http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=271983#271983 The case mentioned there is one where concatenation in zdevs would be useful. That case appears to be about trying to get a raidz sized properly against disks of different sizes. I don't see a similar issue for someone preferring a concat over a stripe. I don't quite understand your comment. The question I was referring to was from someone who wanted a configuration which would optimally use the available physical disk space. The configuration which would yield maximum net capacity was to use concats, so IMHO this is a case where one might want a concat below a vdev. Were you asking for use cases of a concat at the pool layer? I think those exist when using RAID hardware where additional striping can lead to an increase of concurrent I/O on the same disks or I/Os being split up unnecessarily. All of this highly depends upon the configuration. Nils ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS or SATA HBA with write cache
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Miles Nordin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never heard of a battery that's used for anything but RAID features. It's an interesting question, if you use the controller in ``JBOD mode'' will it use the write cache or not? I would guess not, but it might. And if it doesn't, can you force it, even by doing sneaky things like making 2-disk mirrors where 1 disk happens to be missing thus wasting half the ports you bought, but turning on the damned write cache? I don't know. The X4150 SAS RAID controllers will use the on-board battery backed cache even when disks are presented as individual LUNs. You can also globally enable/disable the disk write caches. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Pools 1+TB
Couple of questions, What version of Solaris are you using? (cat /etc/release) If you're exposing each disk individually through a LUN/2540 Volume, you don't really gain anything by having a spare on the 2540 (which I assume you're doing by only exposing 11 LUNs instead of 12). Your best bet is to set no spares on the 2540 and then set one of the LUNs as a spare via ZFS. How will you be using the storage? This will help determine how your zpool should be structured. -Aaron On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Kenny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had issues with creating ZFS pools greater than 1 terabyte (TB)? I've created 11 LUNs from a Sun 2540 Disk array (approx 1 TB each). The host system ( SUN Enterprise 5220) reconizes the disks as each having 931GB space. So that should be 10+ TB in size total. However when I zpool them together (using raidz) the zpool status reports 9GB instead of 9TB. Does ZFS have problem reporting TB and defaults to GB instead?? Is my pool really TB in size?? I've read in the best practice wiki that splitting them into smaller pools. Any recommendation on this?? I'm desperate in keepingas much space useable as possible. Thanks --Kenny This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
[zfs-discuss] ZFS with Traditional SAN
All, I'm currently working out details on an upgrade from UFS/SDS on DAS to ZFS on a SAN fabric. I'm interested in hearing how ZFS has behaved in more traditional SAN environments using gear that scales vertically like EMC Clarion/HDS AMS/3PAR etc. Do you experience issues with zpool integrity because of MPxIO events? Has the zpool been reliable over your fabric? Has performance been where you would have expected it to be? Thanks much, -Aaron ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009
My take is that since RAID-Z creates a stripe for every block (http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/raid_z), it should be able to rebuild the bad sectors on a per block basis. I'd assume that the likelihood of having bad sectors on the same places of all the disks is pretty low since we're only reading the sectors related to the block being rebuilt. It also seems that fragmentation would work in your favor here since the stripes would be distributed across more of the platter(s), hopefully protecting you from a wonky manufacturing defect that causes UREs on the same place on the disk. -Aaron On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone here read the article Why RAID 5 stops working in 2009 at http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=162 Does RAIDZ have the same chance of unrecoverable read error as RAID5 in Linux if the RAID has to be rebuilt because of a faulty disk? I imagine so because of the physical constraints that plague our hds. Granted, the chance of failure in my case shouldn't be nearly as high as I will most likely recruit four or three 750gb drives- not in the order of 10tb. With my opensolaris NAS, I will be scrubbing every week (consumer grade drives[every month for enterprise-grade]) as recommended in the ZFS best practices guide. If I zpool status and I see that the scrub is increasingly fixing errors, would that mean that the disk is in fact headed towards failure or perhaps that the natural expansion of disk usage is to blame? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Project Hardware
I've had great luck with my Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 card so far. I'm using it in an old PCI slot, so it's probably not as fast as it could be, but it worked great right out of the box. -Aaron On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:09 AM, David Francis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all I was looking at creating a little ZFS storage box at home using the following SATA controllers (Adaptec Serial ATA II RAID 1420SA) on Opensolaris X86 build Just wanted to know if anyone out there is using these and can vouch for them. If not if there's something else you can recommend or suggest. Disk's would be 6*Seagate 500GB drives. Thanks David This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
