Re: setting up raid10 with more than 4 drives

From: mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc
To: Luke Lonergan <llonergan(at)greenplum(dot)com>
Cc: Michael Stone <mstone+postgres(at)mathom(dot)us>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: setting up raid10 with more than 4 drives
Date: 2007-05-30 15:57:34
Message-ID: 20070530155733.GA18830@mark.mielke.cc
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-performance

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 08:51:45AM -0700, Luke Lonergan wrote:
> > This is standard stuff, very well proven: try googling 'self healing zfs'.
> The first hit on this search is a demo of ZFS detecting corruption of one of
> the mirror pair using checksums, very cool:
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/demos/selfheal/;jsessionid=52508
> D464883F194061E341F58F4E7E1
>
> The bad drive is pointed out directly using the checksum and the data
> integrity is preserved.

One part is corruption. Another is ordering and consistency. ZFS represents
both RAID-style storage *and* journal-style file system. I imagine consistency
and ordering is handled through journalling.

Cheers,
mark

--
mark(at)mielke(dot)cc / markm(at)ncf(dot)ca / markm(at)nortel(dot)com __________________________
. . _ ._ . . .__ . . ._. .__ . . . .__ | Neighbourhood Coder
|\/| |_| |_| |/ |_ |\/| | |_ | |/ |_ |
| | | | | \ | \ |__ . | | .|. |__ |__ | \ |__ | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them...

http://mark.mielke.cc/

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-performance by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tyrrill, Ed 2007-05-30 16:22:46 Re: Very slow left outer join
Previous Message Luke Lonergan 2007-05-30 15:51:45 Re: setting up raid10 with more than 4 drives