Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD As ARC

2010-03-28 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
You can't share a device (either as ZIL or L2ARC) between multiple pools. Discussion here some weeks ago reached suggested that an L2ARC device was used for all ARC evictions, regardless of the pool. I'd very much like an authoritative statement (and corresponding documentation

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD As ARC

2010-03-28 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 28, 2010, at 6:57 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: You can't share a device (either as ZIL or L2ARC) between multiple pools. Discussion here some weeks ago reached suggested that an L2ARC device was used for all ARC evictions, regardless of the pool. I'd very much like an

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD As ARC

2010-03-28 Thread Rob Logan
Can't you slice the SSD in two, and then give each slice to the two zpools? This is exactly what I do ... use 15-20 GB for root and the rest for an L2ARC. I like the idea of swapping on SSD too, but why not make a zvol for the L2ARC so your not limited by the hard partitioning?

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD As ARC

2010-03-28 Thread Rob Logan
I like the idea of swapping on SSD too, but why not make a zvol for the L2ARC so your not limited by the hard partitioning? it lives through a reboot.. zpool create -f test c9t3d0s0 c9t4d0s0 zfs create -V 3G rpool/cache zpool add test cache /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/cache reboot

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD As ARC

2010-03-27 Thread Muhammed Syyid
Which is why I was looking to setup 1x8 raidz2 as pool1 and 1x8 raidz2 as pool2 instead of as two vdevs under 1 pool. That way I can have 'some' flexibility where I could take down pool1 or pool2 without affecting the other. The issue I had was how do I set up an L2ARC for 2 pools

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD As ARC

2010-03-27 Thread Erik Trimble
Muhammed Syyid wrote: Which is why I was looking to setup 1x8 raidz2 as pool1 and 1x8 raidz2 as pool2 instead of as two vdevs under 1 pool. That way I can have 'some' flexibility where I could take down pool1 or pool2 without affecting the other. The issue I had was how do I set up an L2ARC

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD As ARC

2010-03-27 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:03:39AM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: You can't share a device (either as ZIL or L2ARC) between multiple pools. Discussion here some weeks ago reached suggested that an L2ARC device was used for all ARC evictions, regardless of the pool. I'd very much like an

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD As ARC

2010-03-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 27 Mar 2010, Daniel Carosone wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:03:39AM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: You can't share a device (either as ZIL or L2ARC) between multiple pools. Discussion here some weeks ago reached suggested that an L2ARC device was used for all ARC evictions,

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD As ARC

2010-03-27 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 27, 2010, at 2:41 AM, Daniel Carosone wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 01:03:39AM -0700, Erik Trimble wrote: You can't share a device (either as ZIL or L2ARC) between multiple pools. Discussion here some weeks ago reached suggested that an L2ARC device was used for all ARC evictions,

[zfs-discuss] SSD As ARC

2010-03-26 Thread Muhammed Syyid
Hi I'm planning on setting up two RaidZ2 volumes in different pools for added flexibility in removing / resizing (from what I understand if they were in the same pool I can't remove them at all). I also have got an SSD drive that I was going to use as Cache (L2ARC). How do I set this up to have

Re: [zfs-discuss] SSD As ARC

2010-03-26 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Fri, March 26, 2010 17:26, Muhammed Syyid wrote: Hi I'm planning on setting up two RaidZ2 volumes in different pools for added flexibility in removing / resizing (from what I understand if they were in the same pool I can't remove them at all). What do you mean remove? You cannot remove