Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Distro Advice

2013-02-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:01:39PM +0100, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 02/26/2013 05:57 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 06:51:08AM -0800, Gary Driggs wrote: > >> On Feb 26, 2013, at 12:44 AM, "Sašo Kiselkov" wrote: > >> > >> I&#

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Distro Advice

2013-02-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
gt; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com h

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 06:57:44PM -, Robert Milkowski wrote: > > > Personally, I'd recommend putting a standard Solaris fdisk > > partition on the drive and creating the two slices under that. > > Why? In most cases giving zfs an entire disk is the best option. > I wouldn't bother with a

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:21:33PM -0600, Phillip Wagstrom wrote: > Eugen, Thanks Phillip and others, most illuminating (pun intended). > Be aware that p0 corresponds to the entire disk, regardless of how it > is partitioned with fdisk. The fdisk partitions are 1 - 4. By using p0 for >

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:44:54PM -0600, Phillip Wagstrom wrote: > > On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:21:33PM -0600, Phillip Wagstrom wrote: > >> Eugen, > >> > >>Be aware that p0 corresponds to the

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:21:33PM -0600, Phillip Wagstrom wrote: > Eugen, > > Be aware that p0 corresponds to the entire disk, regardless of how it > is partitioned with fdisk. The fdisk partitions are 1 - 4. By using p0 for > log and p1 for cache, you could very well be writing to same

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 12:44:26PM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: > > On Jan 3, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 06:02:40PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > >> > >> Happy $holidays, > >> > >> I have a

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 06:02:40PM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > Happy $holidays, > > I have a pool of 8x ST31000340AS on an LSI 8-port adapter as Just a little update on the home NAS project. I've set the pool sync to disabled, and added a couple of 8. c4t1d0

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2013-01-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:40:39AM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: > On Dec 30, 2012, at 9:02 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > The system is a MSI E350DM-E33 with 8 GByte PC1333 DDR3 > > memory, no ECC. All the systems have Intel NICs with mtu 9000 > > enabled, including all

[zfs-discuss] poor CIFS and NFS performance

2012-12-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
Happy $holidays, I have a pool of 8x ST31000340AS on an LSI 8-port adapter as a raidz3 (no compression nor dedup) with reasonable bonnie++ 1.03 values, e.g. 145 MByte/s Seq-Write @ 48% CPU and 291 MByte/s Seq-Read @ 53% CPU. It scrubs with 230+ MByte/s with reasonable system load. No hybrid po

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sonnet Tempo SSD supported?

2012-12-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 11:07:17AM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 06:28:17PM -0500, Peter Tripp wrote: > > HI Eugen, > > > > Whether it's compatible entirely depends on the chipset of the SATA > > controller. > > This is what I was tryi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sonnet Tempo SSD supported?

2012-12-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 03:38:07AM -0800, Gary Driggs wrote: > On Dec 4, 2012, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > Either way I'll know the hardware support situation soon > > enough. > > Have you tried contacting Sonnet? No, but I did some digging. It *might* be a Marvell

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sonnet Tempo SSD supported?

2012-12-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 06:28:17PM -0500, Peter Tripp wrote: > HI Eugen, > > Whether it's compatible entirely depends on the chipset of the SATA > controller. This is what I was trying to find out. I guess I just have to test it empirically. > Basically that card is just a dual port 6gbps PCI

[zfs-discuss] Sonnet Tempo SSD supported?

2012-12-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
Anyone here using http://www.sonnettech.com/product/tempossd.html with a zfs-capable OS? Is e.g. OpenIndiana supported? Thanks. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on SunFire X2100M2 with hybrid pools

2012-11-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:12:43PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Eugen Leitl > > > > can I make e.g. LSI SAS3442E > &g

[zfs-discuss] zfs on SunFire X2100M2 with hybrid pools

2012-11-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
Dear internets, I've got an old SunFire X2100M2 with 6-8 GBytes ECC RAM, which I wanted to put into use with Linux, using the Linux VServer patch (an analogon to zones), and 2x 2 TByte nearline (WD RE4) drives. It occured to me that the 1U case had enough space to add some SSDs (e.g. 2-4 80 GByt

Re: [zfs-discuss] mixing WD20EFRX and WD2002FYPS in one pool

2012-11-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 08:31:23AM -0700, Jan Owoc wrote: > HI Eugen, > > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > Secondly, has anyone managed to run OpenIndiana on an AMD E-350 > > (MSI E350DM-E33)? If it doesn't work, my only options woul

[zfs-discuss] mixing WD20EFRX and WD2002FYPS in one pool

2012-11-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
Hi, after a flaky 8-drive Linux RAID10 just shredded about 2 TByte worth of my data at home (conveniently just before I could make a backup) I've decided to both go full redundancy as well as all zfs at home. A couple questions: is there a way to make WD20EFRX (2 TByte, 4k sectors) and WD200FYPS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 04:57:21AM +, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: > Yes you can, with the help of Dell, install OMSA to get the web interface > to manage the PERC. But it's a pain, and there is no equivalent option for > most HBA's. Specifcally, on my syst

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 01:33:41PM +0100, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 11/07/2012 01:16 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > I'm very interested, as I'm currently working on an all-in-one with > > ESXi (using N40L for prototype and zfs send target, and a Supermicro > > ESXi box

Re: [zfs-discuss] Dedicated server running ESXi with no RAID card, ZFS for storage?

2012-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 12:58:04PM +0100, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 11/07/2012 12:39 PM, Tiernan OToole wrote: > > Morning all... > > > > I have a Dedicated server in a data center in Germany, and it has 2 3TB > > drives, but only software RAID. I have got them to install VMWare ESXi and > > so fa

[zfs-discuss] [Freenas-announce] FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE

2012-10-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
mailing list freenas-annou...@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freenas-announce - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36

[zfs-discuss] looking for slides for basic zfs intro

2012-10-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
Hi, I would like to give a short talk at my organisation in order to sell them on zfs in general, and on zfs-all-in-one and zfs as remote backup (zfs send). Does anyone have a short set of presentation slides or maybe a short video I could pillage for that purpose? Thanks. -- Eugen ___

[zfs-discuss] OT: does the LSI 9211-8i fit into the HP N40L?

2012-09-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
0 GByte), would you go for 2x mirror for L2ARC and 2x mirror for ZIL? Some other configuration? Thanks! -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.

[zfs-discuss] all in one server

2012-09-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
I'm currently thinking about rolling a variant of http://www.napp-it.org/napp-it/all-in-one/index_en.html with remote backup (via snapshot and send) to 2-3 other (HP N40L-based) zfs boxes for production in our organisation. The systems themselves would be either Dell or Supermicro (latter with Z

Re: [zfs-discuss] what have you been buying for slog and l2arc?

2012-08-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 08:39:55PM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > For the slog, you should look for a SLC technology SSD which saves > unwritten data on power failure. In Intel-speak, this is called > "Enhanced Power Loss Data Protection". I am not running across any > Intel SSDs which cl

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] LZ4 compression algorithm

2012-07-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
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[zfs-discuss] [Freenas-announce] FreeNAS 8.2.0-RC1

2012-07-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
anged and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freenas-announce mailing list freenas-annou...@lists.sourceforge.net https:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris derivate with the best long-term future

2012-07-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
> charge the SW/socket and not change by storage capacity > Nexenta Enterprise platform charge U $$ for raw capacity I'm currently using NexentaCore which is EOL. It seems my choices are either OpenIndiana or Illumian, which seem to be very closely related. > On 7/11/2012 7:51 A

[zfs-discuss] Solaris derivate with the best long-term future

2012-07-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
As a napp-it user who recently needs to upgrade from NexentaCore I recently saw "preferred for OpenIndiana live but running under Illumian, NexentaCore and Solaris 11 (Express)" as a system recommendation for napp-it. I wonder about the future of OpenIndiana and Illumian, which fork is likely t

[zfs-discuss] making network configuration sticky in nexenta core/napp-it

2012-01-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
Sorry for an off-topic question, but anyone knows how to make network configuration (done with ifconfig/route add) sticky in nexenta core/napp-it? After reboot system reverts to 0.0.0.0 and doesn't listen to /etc/defaultrouter Thanks. ___ zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] status iCore

2011-11-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
only game in town, now that Oracle has killed the Solaris star? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel 320 as ZIL?

2011-08-16 Thread Eugen Leitl
the 320. Works fine over here (Nexenta Core 3.1). -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B2

Re: [zfs-discuss] trouble adding log and cache on SSD to a pool

2011-08-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 07:19:56PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > Upgrading to hacked N36L BIOS seems to have done the trick: > > eugen@nexenta:~$ zpool status tank > pool: tank > state: ONLINE > scan: none requested > config: > > NAMESTATE R

Re: [zfs-discuss] [vserver] hybrid zfs pools as iSCSI targets for vserver

2011-08-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110621 Red Hat/3.1.11-2.el6_1 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.11 On 08/06/2011 09:30 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 21:40 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: >> I've recently figured out how to make low-end hardware (e.g. HP N36L) >&

Re: [zfs-discuss] [vserver] hybrid zfs pools as iSCSI targets for vserver

2011-08-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 21:40 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > I've recently figured out how to make low-end hardware (e.g. HP N36L) > work well as zfs hybrid pools. The system (Nexenta Core + napp-it) > exports the zfs pools as CIFS, NFS or iSCSI (Comstar). > >

Re: [zfs-discuss] trouble adding log and cache on SSD to a pool

2011-08-06 Thread Eugen Leitl
0 0 errors: No known data errors Anecdotally, the drive noise and system load have gone down as well. It seems even with small SSDs hybrid pools are definitely worthwhile. On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 10:43:02AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > I think I've found the source of my problem

Re: [zfs-discuss] trouble adding log and cache on SSD to a pool

2011-08-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
good results. The main one being no emails from Nexenta informing you that the syspool has moved to a degraded state when it actually hasn’t :) ... On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 09:05:07AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 11:58:47PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 04,

Re: [zfs-discuss] trouble adding log and cache on SSD to a pool

2011-08-05 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 11:58:47PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 02:43:30PM -0700, Larry Liu wrote: > > > >> root@nexenta:/export/home/eugen# zpool add tank log /dev/dsk/c3d1p0 > > > > You should use c3d1s0 here. > > > >> Th &g

Re: [zfs-discuss] trouble adding log and cache on SSD to a pool

2011-08-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
c3d1s1ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 7

[zfs-discuss] trouble adding log and cache on SSD to a pool

2011-08-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
ices/pci@0,0/pci-ide@14,1/ide@0/cmdk@1,0:g lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Aug 5 00:45 /dev/dsk/c3d1s8 -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci-ide@14,1/ide@0/cmdk@1,0:i lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 51 Aug 5 00:45 /dev/dsk/c3d1s9 -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci-ide@14,1/ide@0/cmdk@1,0:j It's probably someth

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

2011-07-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
or a dedicated machine or virtual guest. The appliance will host some 600+ k small (few MBytes) files. Does zfs need any special tuning for this case? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11

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

2011-07-31 Thread Eugen Leitl
them, of course, but that's what the internal USB and external eSATA ports are good for. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE:

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

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

2011-07-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
apt-get update apt-clone upgrade Any first impressions? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7

[zfs-discuss] Backblaze likes Hitachi Deskstar 5K3000 HDS5C3030ALA630

2011-07-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/ Seem to be real 512 Byte sectors, too. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.at

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zil on multiple usb keys

2011-07-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
/s over gige on 2 500gb drives > stripped) but writes top out at about 10 and drop a lot lower... If I where > to add a couple usb keys for zil, would it make a difference? Speaking of which, is there a point in using an eSATA flash stick? If yes, which? -- Eugen* Leitl http://l

[zfs-discuss] RealSSD C300 -> Crucial CT064M4SSD2

2011-06-08 Thread Eugen Leitl
Anyone running a Crucial CT064M4SSD2? Any good, or should I try getting a RealSSD C300, as long as these are still available? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.at

Re: [zfs-discuss] optimal layout for 8x 1 TByte SATA (consumer)

2011-05-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
l have to try the HP N36L setup to see what the CPU load with either raidz2 or mirrored pools will be. > This is purely my speculation, but now that I thought about it, can't get > rid of the idea ;) ... -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org _

[zfs-discuss] optimal layout for 8x 1 TByte SATA (consumer)

2011-05-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
;d scrub once a week, that'd probably suck on raidz2, too? Thanks. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B0

Re: [zfs-discuss] [cryptography] rolling hashes, EDC/ECC vs MAC/MIC, etc.

2011-05-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
the moment you realize that Merkle hash trees are a godsend. Nico -- _______ cryptography mailing list cryptogra...@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>

Re: [zfs-discuss] [cryptography] rolling hashes, EDC/ECC vs MAC/MIC, etc.

2011-05-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
and Dan Shoutis for discussions about this idea. Regards, Zooko ___ cryptography mailing list cryptogra...@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography - End forwarded message - -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is my bottleneck RAM?

2011-01-20 Thread Eugen Leitl
1.3 GHZ AMD Neo, should I do the same? Or should I even not bother with compression? The data set is a lot of scanned documents, already compressed (TIF and PDF). I presume the incidence of identical blocks will be very low under such circumstances. Oh, and with 4x 3 TByte SATA mirrored pool is pretty mu

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP ProLiant N36L

2011-01-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
al USB or the 4x SATA). Known problem? Should I go to stable, or try NexentaStor instead? (I'd rather keep options open with Nexenta Core and napp-it). -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __

[zfs-discuss] OT: anyone aware how to obtain 1.8.0 for X2100M2?

2010-12-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
I realize this is off-topic, but Oracle has completely screwed up the support site from Sun. I figured someone here would know how to obtain Sun Fire X2100 M2 Server Software 1.8.0 Image contents: * BIOS is version 3A21 * SP is updated to version 3.24 (ELOM) * Chipset driver is updat

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3TB HDD in ZFS

2010-12-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
nd throw > away the desktop dock than it is to buy a WD EARS drive. Consider it a > fancy anti-shock packaging. What about Hitachi HDS723030ALA640 (aka Deskstar 7K3000, claimed 24/7)? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
lp, as applications tend to feel more responsive with an SSD. > That's all I run in my laptops now. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postb

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ESX to ZFS

2010-11-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
ted to ESX). I have a problem that people want to have scalable in ~30 TByte increments solution, and I'd rather avoid adding SAS expander boxes but add identical boxes in a cluster, and not just as invididual NFS mounts. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>lei

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster than 1G Ether... ESX to ZFS

2010-11-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
> attach ZFS storage to vmware. > > > > What are people using, as interconnect, to use ZFS storage on ESX(i)? Why do you think 10 GBit Ethernet is expensive? An Intel NIC is 200 EUR, and a crossover cable is enough. No need f

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP ProLiant N36L

2010-11-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
l this is an excellent platform to build a NAS on. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > ___ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http:/

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance issues with iSCSI under Linux

2010-10-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 02:10:49PM -0700, zfs user wrote: > 1 Mangy-Cours CPU ^ Dunno whether deliberate, or malapropism, but I love it. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-

Re: [zfs-discuss] Running on Dell hardware?

2010-10-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
iding prices and pricing nowhere > close to its competitors. Yeah, no more Sun hardware for us, either. Mostly Supermicro, Dell, HP. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP ProLiant N36L

2010-10-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
ere >> is a half-height PCIe x16 and a x1 slot as well. > > Somebody has already bought this microserver? :) Not yet, though I'm thinking about putting those new 4x 3 TByte SATA disks into it. Resilver times in raidz3 will be a nightmare, though. -- E

[zfs-discuss] Jeff Bonwick leaves Sun/Oracle

2010-09-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
first-dot-last construction. It has truly been a wonderful couple of decades. To everyone who taught me, worked with me, learned from me, and supported my efforts in countless ways large and small: Thank you. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __

[zfs-discuss] HP ProLiant N36L

2010-09-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
Anyone had any look getting either OpenSolaris or FreeBSD with zfs working on http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/sm/WF06b/15351-15351-4237916-4237917-4237917-4248009-4248034.html ? The Neo has a lot more oomph than the Atoms, and the box can handle up to 8 GByte ECC memory. -- Eugen

[zfs-discuss] FreeBSD 8.1 out, has zfs vserion 14 and can boot from zfs

2010-07-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/FreeBSD-8-1-arrives-1044996.html FreeBSD 8.1 arrives FreeBSD Logo Originally scheduled for the 9th of July, the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has now issued version 8.1 of its popular free Unix derivative, the first stable major point update to version

Re: [zfs-discuss] CPU requirements for zfs performance

2010-07-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
ly do. What sort of traffic do you > expect? Thanks for the thumbs-up. Just local GBit LAN. If it does ~20-40 MByte/s it should be quite enough. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36

[zfs-discuss] CPU requirements for zfs performance

2010-07-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
How badly would a dual-core 1.6 GHz Atom with 4 GBytes RAM be underpowered for serving 4-6 SATA drives? What kind of transfer speed (GBit Ethernet, Intel NICs) can I expect with raidz2 or raidz3? Thanks. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://l

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
re out out to lunch if it hits it ;p However, in a whole series of anecdotes I've done quite well ditching Dells and Suns and HPs for Supermicro, and sourcing disks (and sometimes memory) from the likes of TechData and IngramMicro. No doubt, others have very different stories to tell. -

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-14 Thread Eugen Leitl
umber of disks into it, and can't source the diskless caddies elsewhere? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B01

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel X25-E SSD in x4500 followup

2010-06-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
(80 and 160 GByte) suddenly die out me, out of a sample size of maybe 20. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099

[zfs-discuss] Review: SuperMicro’s SC847 (S C847A) 4U chassis with 36 drive bays

2010-05-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.natecarlson.com/2010/05/07/review-supermicros-sc847a-4u-chassis-with-36-drive-bays/ Review: SuperMicro’s SC847 (SC847A) 4U chassis with 36 drive bays May 7, 2010 · 9 comments in Geek Stuff, Linux, Storage, Virtualization, Work Stuff SuperMicro SC847 Thumbnail [Or "my quest for th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard drives for ZFS NAS

2010-05-12 Thread Eugen Leitl
y use on their enterprise level NAS's? Any good Seagates? After a 7200.11 debacle (in fact, SMART just told me I've got another deader on my hands) I'm quite leery. Maybe the SAS Seagates are better. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Oracle to no longer support ZFS on OpenSolaris?

2010-04-21 Thread Eugen Leitl
7;s track of past technology acquisitions. The burden of proof is quite onerous, and quite in their court. Words are not nearly enough. It seems the technology is finished, unless a credible fork is forthcoming. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD sale on newegg

2010-04-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
e, but I decided to take > the risk. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3

[zfs-discuss] FYI: Ben Rockwood: Solaris no longer free

2010-03-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
s to be addressed, but it already is labeled as production ready. Dtrace on FreeBSD also works great. I believe it doesn’t have all the probes Solaris has yet, but it performs great anyways. Personally, I would recommend you to test both systems. Maybe you will find some comparative benchmarks in Phor

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS where to go!

2010-03-26 Thread Eugen Leitl
ave never seen the source nor am I a developer), such crucial features are nontrivial to backport because FreeBSD doesn't practice layer separation. Inasmuch this is still true for the future we'll see once the Oracle/Sun dust settles. -- Eugen* Leitl http:/

Re: [zfs-discuss] suggested ssd for zil

2010-03-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
#x27;m similarly constrained on some of the PCI solutions > that have either battery backup or external power. > > But this seems like a good solution if someone has the space. It doesn't do ECC memory though, which is a real pity. -- Eugen* Le

Re: [zfs-discuss] snv_133 - high cpu

2010-02-23 Thread Eugen Leitl
multiple cores? How much disks (assuming 100 MByte/s throughput for each) would be considered pushing it for a current single-socket quadcore? > Are compression, sha256 checksums, or deduplication enabled for the > filesystem you are using? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>

[zfs-discuss] future of OpenSolaris

2010-02-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
ng a worst case scenario, what would be the best candidate for a fork? Nexenta? Debian already included FreeBSD as a kernel flavor into its fold, it seems Nexenta could be also a good candidate. Maybe anyone in the know could provide a short blurb on what the state is, and what the options are.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor ZIL SLC SSD performance

2010-02-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
It's pretty > reasonable priced (~230 EUR) and stacked with 4GB or 8GB DDR2-ECC should > be more than sufficient. Wouldn't it be better investing these 300-350 EUR into 16 GByte or more of system memory, and a cheap UPS? > http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/hardware.htm --

Re: [zfs-discuss] Abysmal ISCSI / ZFS Performance

2010-02-18 Thread Eugen Leitl
uct/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117187 > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835203002 -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://po

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
rippleware (HP, Fujitsu). -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
pmp, > you could use a similar chassis for a zfs pool. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2

Re: [zfs-discuss] FreeNAS 0.7 zfs performance

2009-11-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
robable, and leaves me with with just the options of NexentaStor, OpenSolaris or FreeBSD at command line level, or a random Linux NAS with btrfs (when it will go production eventually, if ever). Not a happy day. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org"

[zfs-discuss] FreeNAS 0.7 zfs performance

2009-11-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
oping FreeBSD 8.0 which is just out and claims zfs ready for production will do better. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 0

[zfs-discuss] FreeNAS 0.7 with zfs out

2009-11-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
working again (BR 2782729). * Editing existing config items in WebGUI will display incorrect data (e.g. 'System|Advanced|rc.conf' or 'System|Advanced|sysctl.conf') (BR 2792956). * Fix bug in WebGUI which is caused by unhandled special HTML characters used in

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs code and fishworks "fork"

2009-10-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
. > There's also FreeBSD, which also has ZFS and has been scaling up its FreeNAS 0.7 final with zfs will be out Any Day Now. It may lag behind OpenSolaris, but it is usable. > support for embedded platforms (MIPS, ARM, PowerPC) recently. Not sure of > the porting progress of OpenSol

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs code and fishworks "fork"

2009-10-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 01:40:12PM +0800, "C. Bergström" wrote: > >So use Nexenta? > Got data you care about? > > Verify extensively before you jump to that ship.. :) So you're saying Nexenta have been known to drop bits on the floor, unprovoked? Inquiring m

Re: [zfs-discuss] Stupid to have 2 disk raidz?

2009-10-15 Thread Eugen Leitl
the big problem - how to do the expansion in stages, while keeping the > pool active. At this point, the only way I can get it to work is to > offline (ie export) the whole pool, and then pray that nothing > interrupts the expansion process. Anyone knows how Drobo does it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on home OpenSolaris/ZFS server

2009-10-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
such a bay rack for years, and it survived one big tower, and is now dwelling in a cheap Sharkoon case. The fan is a bit noisy, but then, the server is behind a couple of doors, and serves the house LAN. It's currently running Linux, but has already a FreeNAS on an IDE DOM preinstalled. -- Eug

[zfs-discuss] poor man's Drobo on FreeNAS

2009-09-30 Thread Eugen Leitl
Somewhat hairy, but interesting. FYI. https://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/freenas/viewtopic.php?f=97&t=1902 -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ati

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on home OpenSolaris/ZFS server

2009-09-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
server room, where such systems belongs. The only way to deal with that is watercooling, or operating the thing out of your earshot (cellar, etc). There are large enclosures with large, slow-moving fans which are suitable for the living room, but I doubt you can miss 16-24 drives in action.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on home OpenSolaris/ZFS server

2009-09-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
, where a downtime of days or weeks is not critical. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8

Re: [zfs-discuss] Collecting hardware configurations (was Re: White box server for OpenSolaris)

2009-09-25 Thread Eugen Leitl
-community-recommended configuration to use. > > Any takers? I'm willing to contribute (zfs on Opensolaris, mostly Supermicro boxes and FreeNAS (FreeBSD 7.2, next 8.x probably)). Is there a wiki for that somewhere? -- Eugen* Leitl http://l

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ versus mirrroed

2009-09-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
.php/ZFS_Best_Practices_Guide is very helpful, but it doesn't offer concrete layout examples for odd number of disks (understandable, since Sun has to sell the Thumper), and is pretty mum on raidz3. Thank you. This list is fun, and he

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ versus mirrroed

2009-09-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
y a Thumper), and maybe include raidz3 into the number crunch? Thanks! -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAIDZ versus mirrroed

2009-09-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
out the pools for above workload, assuming 24 SATA drives/chassis (24-48 TBytes raw storage), and 80 GByte SSD each for ZIL/L2ARC (is that too little? Would 160 GByte work better?) Thanks lots. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org _

Re: [zfs-discuss] alternative hardware configurations for zfs

2009-09-11 Thread Eugen Leitl
is a hybrid application (application in Solaris containers accessing zfs pool on the same machine) I realize ECC is very important. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.

Re: [zfs-discuss] alternative hardware configurations for zfs

2009-09-10 Thread Eugen Leitl
f, but even the AMD boards work well. Yes, dual-socket quadcore Xeon. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A

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