Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCore 3.1 - ZFS V. 28

2011-07-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:56:38PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: apt-get update apt-clone upgrade Any first impressions? I finally came around installing NexentaCore 3.1 along with napp-it and AMP on a HP N36L with 8 GBytes RAM. I'm testing it with 4x 1 and 1.5 TByte consumer SATA drives

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCore 3.1 - ZFS V. 28

2011-07-31 Thread Erik Trimble
On 7/31/2011 4:29 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:56:38PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: apt-get update apt-clone upgrade Any first impressions? I finally came around installing NexentaCore 3.1 along with napp-it and AMP on a HP N36L with 8 GBytes RAM. I'm testing it with 4x 1

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCore 3.1 - ZFS V. 28

2011-07-31 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Hello Eugen! I finally came around installing NexentaCore 3.1 along with napp-it and AMP on a HP N36L with 8 GBytes RAM. I'm testing it with 4x 1 and 1.5 TByte consumer SATA drives (Seagate) with raidz2 and raidz3 and like what I see so far. Given

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCore 3.1 - ZFS V. 28

2011-07-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 03:45:23PM +0200, Volker A. Brandt wrote: I would be very interested in hearing about your success. Especially, if the Hitachi HDS5C3030ALA630 SATA-III disks work in the N36L at all. My guess would be that the on-board SATA-II controller will not support more than

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCore 3.1 - ZFS V. 28

2011-07-31 Thread Richard Elling
On Jul 31, 2011, at 8:20 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 05:19:07AM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: Yes. You can attach a ZIL or L2ARC device anytime after the pool is created. Excellent. :-) Also, I think you want an Intel 320, NOT the 311, for use as a

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCore 3.1 - ZFS V. 28

2011-07-31 Thread Volker A. Brandt
I'm 99% sure N36L takes 3 TByte SATA, as we have 5 of such systems in production using the more expensive 3 TByte Hitachis. That is very good to hear, thank you! You can't boot from them, of course, but that's what the internal USB and external eSATA ports are good for. Of course, but

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-07-31 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 05:58:49PM +0200, Hans Rosenfeld wrote: I'm working on a patch for grub that fixes the ashift=12 issue. Oh, great - and from the looks of the patch, for other values of 12 as well :) I'm probably not going to fix the div-by-zero reboot. Fair enough, if it's an

Re: [zfs-discuss] booting from ashift=12 pool..

2011-07-31 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 11:22:36AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 05:58:49PM +0200, Hans Rosenfeld wrote: I'm working on a patch for grub that fixes the ashift=12 issue. Oh, great - and from the looks of the patch, for other values of 12 as well :) I'm probably

Re: [zfs-discuss] Large scale performance query

2011-07-31 Thread Evgueni Martynov
On 25/07/2011 2:34 AM, Phil Harrison wrote: Hi All, Hoping to gain some insight from some people who have done large scale systems before? I'm hoping to get some performance estimates, suggestions and/or general discussion/feedback. I cannot discuss the exact specifics of the purpose but will