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On 26/09/2014 00:46, Andrew M. Hettinger wrote:<br>
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I'm presently running tests on a pool using 3x Samsung 850 SSDs on a LSI-9211-8i<br>
(IT) contoller. I thought I'd try seperating the intent log to see if lowering<br>
the write amplification on the pool-drives would help, so I added another<br>
matching SSD for that, but under load I still seem to get extensive checksum<br>
errors. Does anyone have any ideas as to what would be causing this?<br>
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<br></blockquote></div>I would suspect hardware. Avoid overly cheap SAS cables.<br><br>I run nearly 100 SSDs with Illumos based ZFS. 63 of them are Samsung 840 Pros in a pure SSD pool in a Supermicro JBOD. I don't see any checksum problems. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The 850 has the same firmware as the 840 so the new generation should not make any difference.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>I also always run SAS to SATA interposers to keep the SAS buses happy. However, Samsung SSDs are the only brand SSD that I found to consistently work with the interposers.<br><br>All my HBAs are LSI 2308 and 2008 controller based. Make sure your firmware is up to date. There have been many SSD related fixes in the LSI HBA. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If you can avoid it don't use a SAS expander, they will slow things down and without interposers are susceptible to reset storms. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">A log device is really necessary on an SSD pool. The sync write behavior of ZFS simply does not work well with SSDs with out a log. Using an 850 is not a good choice for a log device because it does not have power loss protections. You are better off turning sync off than trying to use them as a log. <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-Chip <br></div></div>