[zfs-discuss] Custom Jumpstart and RAID-10 ZFS rpool

2008-10-29 Thread Stephen Le
-10? I've tried using the following line, but the Jumpstart check script complains about it being invalid: pool newpool auto auto auto mirror c0t0d0s0 c0t1d0s0 mirror c0t2d0s0 c0t3d0s0 Thanks, Stephen Le [1] http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/boot/zfsbootFAQ/#jumpin

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Performance with Thousands of File Systems

2007-06-30 Thread Stephen Le
> I think you will find that managing quotas for services is better > when implemented by the service, rather than the file system. Thanks for the suggestion, Richard, but we're very happy with our current mail software, and we'd rather use file system quotas to control inbox sizes (our mail adm

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Performance with Thousands of File Systems

2007-06-30 Thread Stephen Le
(accidentally replied off-list via email, posting message here) We've already considered pooling user quotas together, if that's what you're going to suggest. Pooling user quotas would present a few problems for us, as we have a fair number of users with unique quotas and the general user quota

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Performance with Thousands of File Systems

2007-06-29 Thread Stephen Le
I'm investigating the feasibility of migrating from UFS to ZFS for a mail-store supporting 20K users. I need separate quotas for all of my users, which forces me to create separate ZFS file systems for each user. I had read that there were issues with slow boot times with thousands of ZFS file s

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS RAID-10

2006-10-22 Thread Stephen Le
After some experimentation, it seems something like the following command would create a RAID-10 equivalent: zpool create tank mirror [i]disk1[/i] [i]disk2[/i] mirror [i]disk3[/i] [i]disk4[/i] This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discus

[zfs-discuss] ZFS RAID-10

2006-10-22 Thread Stephen Le
Is it possible to construct a RAID-10 array with ZFS? I've read through the ZFS documentation, and it appears that the only way to create a RAID-10 array would be to create two mirrored (RAID-1) emulated volumes in ZFS and combine those to create the outer RAID-0 volume. Am I approaching this i