Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-24 Thread Shannon Roddy
Ben Gollmer wrote: > On Jan 24, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Shannon Roddy wrote: > >> I went with a third party FC/SATA unit which has been flawless as >> a direct attach for my ZFS JBOD system. Paid about $0.70/GB. > > What did you use, if you don't mind my asking? >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-24 Thread Shannon Roddy
Frank Cusack wrote: > On January 24, 2007 9:40:41 AM -0800 Richard Elling > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Peter Eriksson wrote: >>> Yes please. Now give me a fairly cheap (but still quality) FC-attached >>> JBOD utilizing SATA/SAS disks and I'll be really happy! :-) >> >> ... with write cache and

Re: [zfs-discuss] External drive enclosures + Sun Server for mass storage

2007-01-20 Thread Shannon Roddy
Frank Cusack wrote: > > It is ashame (for the consumer) that it's not available without drives. > Sun has always had an obscene markup on drives. > > -frank To me, hard drives today are as much a commodity item as network cable, GBICs, NICs, DVD drives, etc. Sun should not be marking them up at

Re: [zfs-discuss] External drive enclosures + Sun Server for mass storage

2007-01-20 Thread Shannon Roddy
Frank Cusack wrote: > > thumper (x4500) seems pretty reasonable ($/GB). > > -frank I am always amazed that people consider thumper to be reasonable in price. 450% or more markup per drive from street price in July 2006 numbers doesn't seem reasonable to me, even after subtracting the cost of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-01-18 Thread Shannon Roddy
Celso wrote: > Both removing disks from a zpool and modifying raidz arrays would be very > useful. Add my vote for this. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Sol 10 x86_64 intermittent SATA device locks up server

2006-08-28 Thread Shannon Roddy
Hello All, I have an issue where I have two SATA cards with 5 drives each in one zfs pool. The issue is one of the devices has been intermittently failing. The problem is that the entire box seems to lock up on occasion when this happens. I currently have the SATA cable to that device disconnec

[zfs-discuss] Good 8 or 16 port x86 PCI SATA card

2006-07-21 Thread Shannon Roddy
Hi All, I have looked on the HCL list for Sol 10 x86 without much luck. I am looking for a 8 or 16 port SATA card for a JBOD Sol 10 x86 ZFS installation. Anyone know of one that is well supported in Sol 10? I am starting to do some testing with an LSI Logic 320-XLP SATA RAID card, but so far as

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris 10 6/06 now available for download

2006-06-27 Thread Shannon Roddy
>> >>> Solaris 10u2 was released today. You can now download it from here: >>> >>> http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp >>> Does anyone know if ZFS is included in this release? One of my local Sun reps said it did not make it into the u2 release, though I have heard for ages that 6/06

Re: [zfs-discuss] status question regarding sol10u2

2006-06-26 Thread Shannon Roddy
Noel Dellofano wrote: > Solaris 10u2 was released today. You can now download it from here: > > http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp Seems the download links are dead except for x86-64. No Sparc downloads. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discu