Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-02-08 Thread Jens Elkner
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 03:30:45PM +0100, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:31:59AM -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > What is the status of ZFS support for TRIM? > [...] > My initial idea was to implement 100% reliable TRIM, so that I can > implement secure delete using it,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM - No need for TRIM

2011-02-07 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On Mon, Feb 7 at 20:43, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sun, 6 Feb 2011, Orvar Korvar wrote: 1) Using SSD without TRIM is acceptable. The only drawback is that without TRIM, the SSD will write much more, which effects life time. Because when the SSD has written enough, it will break. Why do you

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM - No need for TRIM

2011-02-07 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 6 Feb 2011, Orvar Korvar wrote: 1) Using SSD without TRIM is acceptable. The only drawback is that without TRIM, the SSD will write much more, which effects life time. Because when the SSD has written enough, it will break. Why do you think that the SSD should necessarily write much

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM - No need for TRIM

2011-02-06 Thread Erik Trimble
On 2/6/2011 3:51 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: Ok, so can we say that the conclusion for a home user is: 1) Using SSD without TRIM is acceptable. The only drawback is that without TRIM, the SSD will write much more, which effects life time. Because when the SSD has written enough, it will break. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM - No need for TRIM

2011-02-06 Thread Erik Trimble
On 2/6/2011 3:51 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: Ok, so can we say that the conclusion for a home user is: 1) Using SSD without TRIM is acceptable. The only drawback is that without TRIM, the SSD will write much more, which effects life time. Because when the SSD has written enough, it will break. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM - No need for TRIM

2011-02-06 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> 2) And later, when Solaris gets TRIM support, should I reformat or is > there no need to reformat? I mean, maybe I must format and reinstall > to get TRIM all over the disk. Or will TRIM immediately start to do > it's magic? Trim works on the device level, so a reformat won't be necessary Vennl

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM - No need for TRIM

2011-02-06 Thread Orvar Korvar
Ok, so can we say that the conclusion for a home user is: 1) Using SSD without TRIM is acceptable. The only drawback is that without TRIM, the SSD will write much more, which effects life time. Because when the SSD has written enough, it will break. I dont have high demands for my OS disk, so b

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM - No need for TRIM

2011-02-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Erik Trimble > > Bottom line, it's maybe $50 in parts, plus a $100k VLSI Engineer to do > the design. Well, only if there's a high volume. If you're only going to sell 10,000 of these device

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-02-05 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Orvar Korvar > > So, the bottom line is that Solaris 11 Express can not use TRIM and SSD? Is > that the conclusion? So, it might not be a good idea to use a SSD? Even without TRIM, SSD's are s

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM - No need for TRIM

2011-02-05 Thread Erik Trimble
On 2/5/2011 5:44 AM, Orvar Korvar wrote: So... Sun's SSD used for ZIL and L2ARC does not use TRIM, so how big a problem is lack of TRIM in ZFS really? It should not hinder anyone to run without TRIM? I didnt really understand the answer on this question. Because Sun's SSD does not use TRIM - a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM - No need for TRIM

2011-02-05 Thread Orvar Korvar
So... Sun's SSD used for ZIL and L2ARC does not use TRIM, so how big a problem is lack of TRIM in ZFS really? It should not hinder anyone to run without TRIM? I didnt really understand the answer on this question. Because Sun's SSD does not use TRIM - and it is not consider a hinder? A home user

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-02-05 Thread Joerg Schilling
Orvar Korvar wrote: > Ok, I read a bit more on TRIM. It seems that without TRIM, there will be more > unnecessary reads and writes on the SSD, the result being that writes can > take long time. > > A) So, how big of a problem is it? Sun has for long sold SSDs (for L2ARC and > ZIL), and they do

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-02-05 Thread Orvar Korvar
Ok, I read a bit more on TRIM. It seems that without TRIM, there will be more unnecessary reads and writes on the SSD, the result being that writes can take long time. A) So, how big of a problem is it? Sun has for long sold SSDs (for L2ARC and ZIL), and they dont use TRIM? So, is TRIM not a bi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-02-04 Thread Erik Trimble
On 2/4/2011 7:39 AM, Christopher George wrote: So, the bottom line is that Solaris 11 Express can not use TRIM and SSD? Correct. So, it might not be a good idea to use a SSD? It is true that a Flash based SSD, will be adversely impacted by ZFS not supporting TRIM, especially for the ZIL accel

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-02-04 Thread David Magda
On Fri, February 4, 2011 09:30, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > But in most cases we don't need TRIM to be so perfect. My > current idea is to delay TRIM operation for some number of transaction > groups. For example if block is freed in txg=5, I'll send TRIM for it > after txg=15 (if it wasn't reass

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-02-04 Thread Christopher George
> So, the bottom line is that Solaris 11 Express can not use > TRIM and SSD? Correct. > So, it might not be a good idea to use a SSD? It is true that a Flash based SSD, will be adversely impacted by ZFS not supporting TRIM, especially for the ZIL accelerator. But a DRAM based SSD is immune t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-02-04 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:31:59AM -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > What is the status of ZFS support for TRIM? [...] I've no idea, but because I wanted to add such support for FreeBSD/ZFS for a while now, I'll share my thoughts. The problem is where to put those operations. ZFS internally have

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-02-04 Thread Deano
u can leave more space unused, that helps. Bye, Deano -Original Message- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Orvar Korvar Sent: 04 February 2011 13:20 To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM So

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-02-04 Thread Orvar Korvar
So, the bottom line is that Solaris 11 Express can not use TRIM and SSD? Is that the conclusion? So, it might not be a good idea to use a SSD? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-02-01 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 01/31/11 01:09 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 03:41:52PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: Brandon High wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: What is the status of ZFS support for TRIM? I believe it's been supported

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-01-31 Thread Joerg Schilling
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 03:41:52PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Brandon High wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Edward Ned Harvey > > > wrote: > > > > What is the status of ZFS support for TRIM? > > > > > > I believe it's been supported for a while

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-01-31 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 03:41:52PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Brandon High wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Edward Ned Harvey > > wrote: > > > What is the status of ZFS support for TRIM? > > > > I believe it's been supported for a while now. > > http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-01-31 Thread Joerg Schilling
Brandon High wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Edward Ned Harvey > wrote: > > What is the status of ZFS support for TRIM? > > I believe it's been supported for a while now. > http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6792-SATA-TRIM-support-in-Opensolaris.html The command is implemented in the sa

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-01-29 Thread Deano
1 18:40 To: Edward Ned Harvey Cc: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > What is the status of ZFS support for TRIM? I believe it's been supported for a while now. http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6792-SA

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-01-29 Thread Brandon High
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > What is the status of ZFS support for TRIM? I believe it's been supported for a while now. http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6792-SATA-TRIM-support-in-Opensolaris.html -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com _

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-01-29 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey My google-fu is coming up short on this one... I didn't see that it had been discussed in a while ... BTW, there were a bunch of place

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-01-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey > > My google-fu is coming up short on this one...  I didn't see that it had been > discussed in a while ... BTW, there were a bunch of places where people said "ZFS doesn't

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-01-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
My google-fu is coming up short on this one... I didn't see that it had been discussed in a while ... What is the status of ZFS support for TRIM? For the pool in general... and... Specifically for the slog and/or cache??? ___ zfs-discuss maili