[OpenIndiana-discuss] ODP: ODP: Re: iSCSI

2013-08-08 Thread Piotr May
Piotr May wrote on 2013-08-07 09:22:20: > > Jan Owoc wrote on 2013-08-06 16:02:48: > > > Is this what you were looking for? > > > > [1] http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19120-01/open.solaris/index.html > > [2] > http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19120-01/open.solaris/817-2271/ftyxh/index.html > > Than

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Inefficient zvol space usage on 4k drives

2013-08-08 Thread Richard Elling
On Aug 8, 2013, at 11:34 AM, Lionel Cons wrote: > On 8 August 2013 17:11, Richard Elling > wrote: >> On Aug 7, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Jason Lawrence wrote: >> >>> This might be a better question for the Illumos group, so please let me >>> know. >>> >>> I have a zvol for a KVM instance which I f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Inefficient zvol space usage on 4k drives

2013-08-08 Thread Lionel Cons
On 8 August 2013 17:11, Richard Elling wrote: > On Aug 7, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Jason Lawrence wrote: > >> This might be a better question for the Illumos group, so please let me know. >> >> I have a zvol for a KVM instance which I felt was taking up too much space. >> After doing a little research,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Inefficient zvol space usage on 4k drives

2013-08-08 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Thanks for the insight, Richard. -- Sriram On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Richard Elling < richard.ell...@richardelling.com> wrote: > On Aug 7, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Jason Lawrence wrote: > > > This might be a better question for the Illumos group, so please let me > know. > > > > I have a zvol f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Inefficient zvol space usage on 4k drives

2013-08-08 Thread Richard Elling
On Aug 7, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Jason Lawrence wrote: > This might be a better question for the Illumos group, so please let me know. > > I have a zvol for a KVM instance which I felt was taking up too much space. > After doing a little research, I stumbled upon > http://support.freenas.org/ticket

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Inefficient zvol space usage on 4k drives

2013-08-08 Thread Dan Vatca
Hi, I've done some tests (some months ago) similar to the ones you intend to make, and indeed the space inefficiency clearly shows. The test data is not very "academic", but proves the point you are discussing. The data also shows that the current refreservation calculations are not accurate in