Re: [zfs-discuss] Will ZFS employ raid0 stripes in an ordinary storage pool?

2008-04-17 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Richard, Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 11:19:27 PM, you wrote: RE No, not normally. ZFS groups writes to try to do 128kByte writes. RE So in a single 128kByte block, there may be parts of different files. RE By default the transaction group is flushed every 5 seconds, but there RE are many

Re: [zfs-discuss] Will ZFS employ raid0 stripes in an ordinary storage pool?

2008-04-17 Thread Richard Elling
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Richard, Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 11:19:27 PM, you wrote: RE No, not normally. ZFS groups writes to try to do 128kByte writes. RE So in a single 128kByte block, there may be parts of different files. RE By default the transaction group is flushed every 5

Re: [zfs-discuss] Will ZFS employ raid0 stripes in an ordinary storage pool?

2008-04-16 Thread Richard Elling
Brandon High wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Jayaraman, Bhaskar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Brandon, so basically there is no way of knowing: - 1] How your file will be distributed across the disks 2] What will be the stripe size You could look at the source to try

Re: [zfs-discuss] Will ZFS employ raid0 stripes in an ordinary storage pool?

2008-04-16 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brandon High wrote: The stripe size will be across all vdevs that have space. For each stripe written, more data will land on the empty vdev. Once the previously existing vdevs fill up, writes will go to the new vdev.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Will ZFS employ raid0 stripes in an ordinary storage pool?

2008-04-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Brandon High wrote: I think RAID-Z is different, since the stripe needs to spread across all devices for protection. I'm not sure how it's done. My understanding is that RAID-Z is indeed different and does NOT have to spread across all devices for protection. It can use

Re: [zfs-discuss] Will ZFS employ raid0 stripes in an ordinary storage pool?

2008-04-15 Thread Brandon High
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Brandon High wrote: I think RAID-Z is different, since the stripe needs to spread across all devices for protection. I'm not sure how it's done. My understanding is that RAID-Z is indeed

[zfs-discuss] Will ZFS employ raid0 stripes in an ordinary storage pool?

2008-04-14 Thread Bhaskar Jayaraman
Hi, I'm doing the following actions on my solaris 10 system. Please let me know if zfs will do the following things: - Question1: - Will zfs employ ordinary raid0 stripes while creating the file dust? Question2: - Since most of my file /exp/dust1 (~74% = 1 - 400MB/1500MB) reside on

Re: [zfs-discuss] Will ZFS employ raid0 stripes in an ordinary storage pool?

2008-04-14 Thread Brandon High
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Bhaskar Jayaraman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question1: - Will zfs employ ordinary raid0 stripes while creating the file dust? Sort of, though its not raid0. It will balance the writes across the members of its storage pools. So in your 3 disk zpool, the writes