Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggestions on 30 drive configuration?

2007-06-27 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 28/06/2007, at 12:29 AM, Victor Latushkin wrote: It is not so easy to predict. ZFS will coalesce writes. A single transaction group may have many different writes in it. Also, raidz[12] is dynamic, and will use what it needs, unlike separate volume managers who do not have any underst

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggestions on 30 drive configuration?

2007-06-27 Thread Victor Latushkin
Richard Elling wrote: Rob Logan wrote: > an array of 30 drives in a RaidZ2 configuration with two hot spares > I don't want to mirror 15 drives to 15 drives ok, so space over speed... and are willing to toss somewhere between 4 and 15 drives for protection. raidz splits the (up to 128k) writ

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggestions on 30 drive configuration?

2007-06-26 Thread Richard Elling
Rob Logan wrote: > an array of 30 drives in a RaidZ2 configuration with two hot spares > I don't want to mirror 15 drives to 15 drives ok, so space over speed... and are willing to toss somewhere between 4 and 15 drives for protection. raidz splits the (up to 128k) write/read recordsize into

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggestions on 30 drive configuration?

2007-06-26 Thread Rob Logan
> an array of 30 drives in a RaidZ2 configuration with two hot spares > I don't want to mirror 15 drives to 15 drives ok, so space over speed... and are willing to toss somewhere between 4 and 15 drives for protection. raidz splits the (up to 128k) write/read recordsize into each element of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggestions on 30 drive configuration?

2007-06-22 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Dan Saul wrote: I care more about data integrity then performance. Of course if performance is so bad that one would not be able to, say stream a video off of it that wouldn't be acceptable. Any config I could imagine would be able to stream several videos at once (even 10Mbit/sec 1080p HD).

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggestions on 30 drive configuration?

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Elling
Dan Saul wrote: I care more about data integrity then performance. Of course if performance is so bad that one would not be able to, say stream a video off of it that wouldn't be acceptable. The model I used in this blog deals with small, random reads, not streaming workloads. In part this is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggestions on 30 drive configuration?

2007-06-22 Thread Dan Saul
I care more about data integrity then performance. Of course if performance is so bad that one would not be able to, say stream a video off of it that wouldn't be acceptable. On 6/22/07, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan Saul wrote: > Good day ZFS-Discuss, > > I am planning to build

Re: [zfs-discuss] Suggestions on 30 drive configuration?

2007-06-22 Thread Richard Elling
Dan Saul wrote: Good day ZFS-Discuss, I am planning to build an array of 30 drives in a RaidZ2 configuration with two hot spares. However I read on the internet that this was not ideal. So I ask those who are more experianced then me, what configuration would you recommend with ZFS, I would lik