[zfs-discuss] All (pure) SSD pool rehash

2011-09-27 Thread Matt Banks
I know there was a thread about this a few months ago. However, with the costs of SSD's falling like they have, the idea of an Oracle X4270 M2/Cisco C210 M2/IBM x3650 M3 class of machine with a 13 drive RAIDZ2 zpool (1 hot spare) is really starting to sound alluring to me/us. Especially with

[zfs-discuss] Mirror Gone

2011-09-27 Thread Tony MacDoodle
Hello, Looks like the mirror was removed or deleted... Can I get it back to it's original??? Original: mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t3d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-1 ONLINE 0 0 0

Re: [zfs-discuss] All (pure) SSD pool rehash

2011-09-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Matt Banks wrote: Am I crazy for putting something like this into production using Solaris 10/11? On paper, it really seems ideal for our needs. As long as the drive firmware operates correctly, I don't see a problem. Also, maybe I read it wrong, but why is it that

Re: [zfs-discuss] All (pure) SSD pool rehash

2011-09-27 Thread Paul Kraus
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Matt Banks mattba...@gmail.com wrote: Also, maybe I read it wrong, but why is it that (in the previous thread about hw raid and zpools) zpools with large numbers of physical drives (eg 20+) were frowned upon? I know that ZFS!=WAFL but it's so common in the

Re: [zfs-discuss] All (pure) SSD pool rehash

2011-09-27 Thread Erik Trimble
On 9/27/2011 10:39 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Matt Banks wrote: Also, maybe I read it wrong, but why is it that (in the previous thread about hw raid and zpools) zpools with large numbers of physical drives (eg 20+) were frowned upon? I know that ZFS!=WAFL There is no

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirror Gone

2011-09-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tony MacDoodle Original: mirror-0  ONLINE   0 0 0     c1t2d0  ONLINE   0 0 0     c1t3d0  ONLINE   0 0 0   mirror-1  ONLINE  

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirror Gone

2011-09-27 Thread Mark Musante
On 27 Sep 2011, at 18:29, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tony MacDoodle Now: mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t2d0 ONLINE 0 0 0 c1t3d0 ONLINE

Re: [zfs-discuss] All (pure) SSD pool rehash

2011-09-27 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Matt Banks Am I crazy for putting something like this into production using Solaris 10/11? On paper, it really seems ideal for our needs. Do you have an objection to solaris 10/11 for some

Re: [zfs-discuss] All (pure) SSD pool rehash

2011-09-27 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Edward Ned Harvey opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com wrote: When a vdev resilvers, it will read each slab of data, in essentially time order, which is approximately random disk order, in order to reconstruct the data that must be written on the

Re: [zfs-discuss] All (pure) SSD pool rehash

2011-09-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: The problem basically applies to HDD's. By creating your pool of SSD's, this problem should be eliminated. This is not completely true. SSDs will help significantly but they will still suffer from the synchronized commit of a transaction group.