Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun Flash Accelerator F20

2010-06-11 Thread sensille
Andrey Kuzmin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Richard Elling > mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Jun 10, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Arne Jansen wrote: > > > Andrey Kuzmin wrote: > >> Well, I'm more accustomed to "sequential vs. random", but YMMW. > >> As to 67000 5

Re: [zfs-discuss] Depth of Scrub

2010-06-05 Thread sensille
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: But what about the parity? Obviously it has to be checked, but I can't find any indications for it in the literature. The man page only states that the data is being checksummed and only if that fails the redundancy is being used. Please tell me I'm wrong ;) I believe y

[zfs-discuss] Depth of Scrub

2010-06-04 Thread sensille
Hi, I have a small question about the depth of scrub in a raidz/2/3 configuration. I'm quite sure scrub does not check spares or unused areas of the disks (it could check if the disks detects any errors there). But what about the parity? Obviously it has to be checked, but I can't find any indicat

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot destroy ... dataset already exists

2010-06-02 Thread sensille
Is the pool mounted? I ran into this problem frequently, until I set mountpoint to legacy. It may be that I had to destroy the filesystem afterwards, but since I stopped mounting the backup target everything runs smoothly. Nevertheless I agree it would be nice to find the root cause for this. -- A

Re: [zfs-discuss] creating a fast ZIL device for $200

2010-05-27 Thread sensille
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: sensille [mailto:sensi...@gmx.net] >> >> The only thing I'd like to point out >> is that >> ZFS doesn't do random writes on a slog, but nearly linear writes. This >> might >> even be hurting performance more

Re: [zfs-discuss] creating a fast ZIL device for $200

2010-05-27 Thread sensille
(resent because of received bounce) Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: sensille [mailto:sensi...@gmx.net] So this brings me back to the question I indirectly asked in the middle of a much longer previous email - Is there some way, in software, to detect the current position of the head? If not

Re: [zfs-discuss] creating a fast ZIL device for $200

2010-05-27 Thread sensille
(resent because of mail problems) Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: sensille [mailto:sensi...@gmx.net] The only thing I'd like to point out is that ZFS doesn't do random writes on a slog, but nearly linear writes. This might even be hurting performance more than random writes, because

Re: [zfs-discuss] creating a fast ZIL device for $200

2010-05-27 Thread sensille
Neil Perrin wrote: > Yes, I agree this seems very appealing. I have investigated and > observed similar results. Just allocating larger intent log blocks but > only writing to say the first half of them has seen the same effect. > Despite the impressive results, we have not pursued this further mai

Re: [zfs-discuss] creating a fast ZIL device for $200

2010-05-27 Thread sensille
Richard Elling wrote: > On May 26, 2010, at 8:38 AM, Neil Perrin wrote: > >> On 05/26/10 07:10, sensille wrote: >>> My idea goes as follows: don't write linearly. Track the rotation >>> and write to the position the head will hit next. This might be done >

Re: [zfs-discuss] creating a fast ZIL device for $200

2010-05-26 Thread sensille
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 2010, sensille wrote: >> The basic idea: the main problem when using a HDD as a ZIL device >> are the cache flushes in combination with the linear write pattern >> of the ZIL. This leads to a whole rotation of the platter after >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] creating a fast ZIL device for $200

2010-05-26 Thread sensille
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- >> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of sensille >> >> The basic idea: the main problem when using a HDD as a ZIL device >> are the cache flushes in combination with the line

[zfs-discuss] creating a fast ZIL device for $200

2010-05-26 Thread sensille
Recently, I've been reading through the ZIL/slog discussion and have the impression that a lot of folks here are (like me) interested in getting a viable solution for a cheap, fast and reliable ZIL device. I think I can provide such a solution for about $200, but it involves a lot of development wo

Re: [zfs-discuss] New SSD options

2010-05-18 Thread sensille
Don wrote: > > With that in mind- Is anyone using the new OCZ Vertex 2 SSD's as a ZIL? > > They're claiming 50k IOPS (4k Write- Aligned), 2 million hour MTBF, TRIM > support, etc. That's more write IOPS than the ZEUS (40k IOPS, $) but at > half the price of an Intel X25-E (3.3k IOPS, $400).

Re: [zfs-discuss] Problems (bug?) with slow bulk ZFS filesystem creation

2010-05-10 Thread sensille
charles wrote: > > Basically after about ZFS 1000 filesystem creations the creation time slows > down to around 4 seconds, and gets progressively worse. > You can speed up the process by initially setting the mountpoint to 'legacy'. It's not the creation that takes that much time, it's mounting