Re: [osol-discuss] Building a storage server, need some advice

2011-04-26 Thread Ian Collins
On 04/27/11 09:03 AM, Ron Mexico wrote: My storage server at work has three RAIDZ3's, each with 12 drives plus two hot spares. I use Western Digital RE4's. In the two years I've been using this configuration, I've never had more than one drive go bad at a time. At home I have a RAIDZ1 using 5

Re: [osol-discuss] Mounting hard drive NTFS

2011-04-26 Thread Stefan Voicu
I found this link: http://blogs.sun.com/mandalika/entry/mounting_windows_ntfs_on_open Works for me. I copy from NTFS to ZFS at around 16-18MB/s -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@openso

Re: [osol-discuss] Building a storage server, need some advice

2011-04-26 Thread Ron Mexico
My storage server at work has three RAIDZ3's, each with 12 drives plus two hot spares. I use Western Digital RE4's. In the two years I've been using this configuration, I've never had more than one drive go bad at a time. At home I have a RAIDZ1 using 5 WD Caviar Green 1TB drives. Not a single d

Re: [osol-discuss] IPS publisher help

2011-04-26 Thread Shawn Walker
On 04/26/11 08:38 AM, Andre Lue wrote: Building an ips image, I start from snv_134 http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev. I then upgrade this to illumos bits from a local nightly illumos repo. What I don't understand is why no update will take place from snv_134 to snv_148/illumos nightly unless I a

[osol-discuss] IPS publisher help

2011-04-26 Thread Andre Lue
Building an ips image, I start from snv_134 http://pkg.opensolaris.org/dev. I then upgrade this to illumos bits from a local nightly illumos repo. What I don't understand is why no update will take place from snv_134 to snv_148/illumos nightly unless I add http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev as an

Re: [osol-discuss] Building a storage server, need some advice

2011-04-26 Thread Orvar Korvar
Initially, If your first vdev gets full to 90% then everything will be slow. If you then add new disks, then your first vdev is full. So you need to distribute the old data to all new disks (for instance by copying the data). Every time you add a new vdev you need to do this rebalancing of data

Re: [osol-discuss] Building a storage server, need some advice

2011-04-26 Thread Ian Collins
On 04/26/11 08:55 PM, ENJOLRAS Fabien wrote: I would like to build a high density storage server which will be evolutive. Here is the hardware I have available: -Norco RPC-4224 chassis (rackable 4U with x24 3.5 SATA disk hotswap backplane) -Tyan Tempest i5000VF motherboard with dual 3 Ghz Xeon

[osol-discuss] Building a storage server, need some advice

2011-04-26 Thread ENJOLRAS Fabien
I would like to build a high density storage server which will be evolutive. Here is the hardware I have available: -Norco RPC-4224 chassis (rackable 4U with x24 3.5 SATA disk hotswap backplane) -Tyan Tempest i5000VF motherboard with dual 3 Ghz Xeon and 8GB ECC DDR2 -3Ware 9650SE-24M8 SATA control