Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS raid is very slow???

2007-07-15 Thread Orvar Korvar
I did that, and here are the results from the ZFS jury: bash-3.00$ timex dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=128k count=8192 8192+0 records in 8192+0 records out real 19.40 user 0.01 sys1.54 That is, 1GB created on 20sec = 50MB/sec. That is better, but still not good,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and powerpath

2007-07-15 Thread JS
Shows up as lpfc (is that Emulex?) lpfc (or fibre-channel) is an Emulex branded emulex card device - sun branded emulex uses the emlxs driver. I run zfs (v2 and v3) on Emulex and Sun Branded emulex on SPARC with Powerpath 4.5.0(and MPxIOin other cases) and Clariion arrays and have never

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and powerpath

2007-07-15 Thread Peter Tribble
On 7/15/07, JS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I run zfs (v2 and v3) on Emulex and Sun Branded emulex on SPARC with Powerpath 4.5.0(and MPxIOin other cases) and Clariion arrays and have never seen this problem. In fact I'm trying to get rid of my PowerPath instances and standardizing on MPxIO

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and powerpath

2007-07-15 Thread Peter Tribble
On 7/13/07, Torrey McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ZFS needs to use the top level multipath device or bad things will probably happen in a failover or in initial zpool creation. Fopr example: You'll try to use the device on two paths and cause a lun failover to occur. Mpxio fixes a lot of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thank you!

2007-07-15 Thread Brian D. Horn
eric kustarz wrote: On Jul 9, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Scott Lovenberg wrote: You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar! Seriously, this is exactly the information I was looking for, thank you very much! Would you happen to know if this has improved since build 63 or if chipset has any