Roberto Waltman
2011-Jun-27 17:23 UTC
[zfs-discuss] [solarisx86] Encryption accelerator card recommendations.
John Martin wrote:> rob_waltman wrote: > >> I installed 5 1.5TB (5900 RPM) drives, upgraded the memory to 8GB, and >> installed Solaris 11 Express without a hitch. >> >> A few simple tests using "dd" with 1gb and 2gb files showed excellent >> transfer rates: ~200 MB/sec on a 5 drive raidz2 pool, ~310 MB/sec on a >> five drive pool with no redundancy. > > No redundancy? What does "zpool status" report?Sorry, I am not near the machine to try it. What I meant by "no redundancy? is this: I partitioned the 5 disks identically - (a) A 40GB boot partition, (used only in the boot disk, planning to mirror it later) (b) A 200Gb "fast" partition (c) Two equal size "safe" partitions filling the rest of the disk (~600Gb each?) Then, (the disks are on c7t0/1/2/3/5, c7t4 is an esata port) # 1Tb fast pool for temporary storage, "work in progress", etc zpool create ${props} fast2 c7t0d0p2 ... c7t5d0p2 zpool create ${props} safe3 raidz2 c7t0d0p3 ... c7t5d0p3 zpool create ${props} safe4 raidz2 c7t0d0p4 ... c7t5d0p4 Where "props" contains my chosen property defaults: -O utf8only=on -O mountpoint=none -O atime=off -O encryption=on ... etc. Roberto Waltman