Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-10 Thread Graham McArdle
Instead, create Single Disk arrays for each disk. I have a question related to this but with a different controller: If I'm using a RAID controller to provide non-RAID single-disk volumes, do I still lose out on the hardware-independence advantage of software RAID that I would get from a

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-09 Thread Graham McArdle
This thread from Marc Bevand and his blog linked therein might have some useful alternative suggestions. http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=480925 I've bookmarked it because it's quite a handy summary and I hope he keeps updating it with new info -- This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-bugs] what's the story wtih bug #6592835?

2008-10-29 Thread Graham McArdle
Hi Nils, thanks for the detailed info. I've tried searching the zfs-discuss archive for both the bug id and 'resilver', but in both cases the only result I can find from the whole history is this thread: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=276358#276358 Maybe the discussions

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-bugs] what's the story wtih bug #6592835?

2008-10-29 Thread Graham McArdle
We have a 24-disk server, so the current design is 2-disk root mirror and 2x 11-disk RAIDZ2 vdevs. I suppose another solution could have been to have 3x 7-disk vdevs plus a hot spare, but the capacity starts to get compromised. Using 1TB disks in our current config will give us growth capacity