[zfs-discuss] zfs and jbod-storage

2007-05-12 Thread Claus Guttesen
Hi. I'm managing a HDS storage system which is slightly larger than 100 TB and we have used approx. 3/4. We use vxfs. The storage system is attached to a solaris 9 on sparc via a fiberswitch. The storage is shared via nfs to our webservers. If I was to replace vxfs with zfs I could utilize raidz

Re: [Fwd: Re: [zfs-discuss] Will this work?]

2007-05-12 Thread Sophia Li
Al Hopper wrote: I really can't experiment with this particular machine, because its my main desktop that drives a 22" and 30" LCDs, has about 18 Gnome workspaces and 80+ windows active. If the Xserver dies it take 10 to 15 minutes just to get everything setup again so that I can get my producti

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: How does ZFS write data to disks?

2007-05-12 Thread Louwtjie Burger
I think it's also important to note _how_ one measure performance (which is black magic at the best of times). I personally like to see averages since doing #iostat -xnz 10 doesn't tell me anything really. Since zfs likes to "bundle and flush" I want my (very expensive ;) Sun storage to give me a

[zfs-discuss] Re: zpool create -f ... fails on disk with previous

2007-05-12 Thread Matthew Flanagan
> > On May 10, 2007, at 10:04 PM, Matthew Flanagan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a test server that I use for testing my > different jumpstart > > installations. This system is continuously > installed and > > reinstalled with different system builds. > > For some builds I have a finish scr