Re: [zfs-discuss] Getting performance out of ZFS

2010-08-01 Thread Karol
Horace - I've run more tests and come up with basically the exact same numbers you do. On Opensolaris - I get about the same from my drives (140MBps) and hit a 1GBps (almost exactly) top end system bottle neck when pushing data to all drives. However, if I give ZFS more than one drive (mirror,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding ZIL to pool questions

2010-08-01 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Gregory Gee Prior to pool version 19, mirroring the log device is highly recommended. I have the following. This system is currently running ZFS pool version 14. This really

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding ZIL to pool questions

2010-08-01 Thread Jim Doyle
You probably would not notice the performance effects of a SSD ZIL on a home network ; so the price of the ticket may not be worth the ride for you. OTOH, you would notice a significant improvement by using that SSD as an L2ARC device. Because the head latency on consumer 1TB drives is so long,

[zfs-discuss] Upgrading 2009.06 to something current

2010-08-01 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
What's a good choice for a decently stable upgrade? I'm unable to run backups because ZFS send/receive won't do full-pool replication reliably, it hangs better than 2/3 of the time, and people here have told me later versions (later than 111b) fix this. I was originally waiting for the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding ZIL to pool questions

2010-08-01 Thread Gregory Gee
Jim, that ACARD looks really nice, but out of the price range for a home server. Edward, disabling ZIL might be ok, but let me characterize what my home server does and tell me if disabling ZIL is ok. My home OpenSolaris server is only used for storage. I have a separate linux box that runs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding ZIL to pool questions

2010-08-01 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 12:36:28PM -0700, Gregory Gee wrote: Jim, that ACARD looks really nice, but out of the price range for a home server. Edward, disabling ZIL might be ok, but let me characterize what my home server does and tell me if disabling ZIL is ok. My home OpenSolaris server

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding ZIL to pool questions

2010-08-01 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Gregory Gee Edward, disabling ZIL might be ok, but let me characterize what my home server does and tell me if disabling ZIL is ok. You should understand what it all means, and make your own

Re: [zfs-discuss] Upgrading 2009.06 to something current

2010-08-01 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 2:57 PM, David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: What's a good choice for a decently stable upgrade?  I'm unable to run backups because ZFS send/receive won't do full-pool replication reliably, it hangs better than 2/3 of the time, and people here have told me later

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding ZIL to pool questions

2010-08-01 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Jim Doyle wrote: You probably would not notice the performance effects of a SSD ZIL on a home network ; so the price of the ticket may not be worth the ride for you. OTOH, There are cases where the SSD ZIL will offer tremendous improvement. One of the common cases is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding ZIL to pool questions

2010-08-01 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 31, 2010, at 8:56 PM, Gregory Gee wrote: I was thinking of adding an SDD ZIL to my pool, but then read this in the 'Best Practice Guide'. * Prior to pool version 19, if you have an unmirrored log device that fails, your whole pool is permanently lost. Prior to pool version

Re: [zfs-discuss] zvol recordsize for backing a zpool over iSCSI

2010-08-01 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 30, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: Just wondering if anyone has experimented with working out the best zvol recordsize for a zvol which is backing a zpool over iSCSI? This is an interesting question. Today, most ZFS implementations are done directly on devices with an