Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-15 Thread hw
On Mon, 2022-11-14 at 20:37 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > hw writes: > > > On Fri, 2022-11-11 at 22:11 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > > > hw writes: > > > > On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 22:37 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > [...] > > How do you intend to copy files at any other level than at file level?  At  > > that

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-14 Thread Linux-Fan
hw writes: On Fri, 2022-11-11 at 22:11 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > hw writes: > > On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 22:37 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > > [...] > > > >  If you do not value the uptime making actual (even > > > scheduled) copies of the data may be recommendable over > > > using a RAID bec

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-13 Thread David Christensen
On 11/13/22 13:02, hw wrote: On Fri, 2022-11-11 at 07:55 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: hw wrote: On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 20:32 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: Linux-Fan wrote: [...] * RAID 5 and 6 restoration incurs additional stress on the other   disks in the RAID which makes it more likely that one of

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-13 Thread hw
On Fri, 2022-11-11 at 22:11 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > hw writes: > > > On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 22:37 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > > [...] > > > >  If you do not value the uptime making actual (even > > > scheduled) copies of the data may be recommendable over > > > using a RAID because such

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-13 Thread hw
On Fri, 2022-11-11 at 07:55 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > hw wrote: > > On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 20:32 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Linux-Fan wrote: > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > * RAID 5 and 6 restoration incurs additional stress on the other > > >   disks in the RAID which makes it more likely th

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-11 Thread Linux-Fan
hw writes: On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 22:37 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: [...] > If you do not value the uptime making actual (even > scheduled) copies of the data may be recommendable over > using a RAID because such schemes may (among other advantages) > protect you from accidental f

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Nov 11, 2022 at 09:03:45AM +0100, hw wrote: On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 23:12 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: The advantage to RAID 6 is that it can tolerate a double disk failure. With RAID 1 you need 3x your effective capacity to achieve that and even though storage has gotten cheaper, it hasn't

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-11 Thread Dan Ritter
hw wrote: > On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 20:32 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Linux-Fan wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > * RAID 5 and 6 restoration incurs additional stress on the other > >   disks in the RAID which makes it more likely that one of them > >   will fail. The advantage of RAID 6 is that it ca

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-11 Thread DdB
Am 11.11.2022 um 07:36 schrieb hw: > That's on https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/zfs/ > > I don't remember where I read about 8, could have been some documentation > about > FreeNAS. Well, OTOH there do exist some considerations, which may have lead to that number sticking somewhere, bu

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-11 Thread hw
On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 23:12 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 08:32:36PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > * RAID 5 and 6 restoration incurs additional stress on the other > >  disks in the RAID which makes it more likely that one of them > >  will fail. > > I believe that's mostly

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-10 Thread hw
On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 20:32 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Linux-Fan wrote: > > > [...] > * RAID 5 and 6 restoration incurs additional stress on the other >   disks in the RAID which makes it more likely that one of them >   will fail. The advantage of RAID 6 is that it can then recover >   from tha

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-10 Thread hw
On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 22:37 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > hw writes: > > > On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 19:17 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > > > hw writes: > > > > On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 14:29 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: > > > > > Le 09/11/2022 à 12:41, hw a écrit : > > [...] > > > > > I'd > > > > have to use md

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-10 Thread hw
On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 14:28 +0100, DdB wrote: > Am 10.11.2022 um 13:03 schrieb Greg Wooledge: > > If it turns out that '?' really is the filename, then it becomes a ZFS > > issue with which I can't help. > > just tested: i could create, rename, delete a file with that name on a > zfs filesystem ju

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-10 Thread hw
On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 08:48 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > hw wrote: > > And I've been reading that when using ZFS, you shouldn't make volumes with > > more > > than 8 disks.  That's very inconvenient. > > > Where do you read these things? I read things like this: "Sun™ recommends that the number

Re: weird directory entry on ZFS volume (Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)))

2022-11-10 Thread David Christensen
On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 05:54:00AM +0100, hw wrote: ls -la insgesamt 5 drwxr-xr-x  3 namefoo namefoo    3 16. Aug 22:36 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root    root    4096  1. Nov 2017  .. drwxr-xr-x  2 namefoo namefoo    2 21. Jan 2020  ? namefoo@host /srv/datadir $ ls -la '?' ls: Zugriff auf ? nicht möglich:

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 08:32:36PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: * RAID 5 and 6 restoration incurs additional stress on the other disks in the RAID which makes it more likely that one of them will fail. I believe that's mostly apocryphal; I haven't seen science backing that up, and it hasn't been

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Linux-Fan wrote: > I think the arguments of the RAID5/6 critics summarized were as follows: > > * Running in a RAID level that is 5 or 6 degrades performance while > a disk is offline significantly. RAID 10 keeps most of its speed and > RAID 1 only degrades slightly for most use cases. > > *

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-10 Thread DdB
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 10.11.2022 um 22:37 schrieb Linux-Fan: > Ext4 still does not offer snapshots. The traditional way to do > snapshots outside of fancy BTRFS and ZFS file systems is to add LVM > to the equation although I do not have any useful experience with > tha

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-10 Thread Linux-Fan
hw writes: On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 19:17 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > hw writes: > > On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 14:29 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: > > > Le 09/11/2022 à 12:41, hw a écrit : [...] > > I'd > > have to use mdadm to create a RAID5 (or use the hardware RAID but that > > isn't > > AFAIK BT

Re: weird directory entry on ZFS volume (Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)))

2022-11-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 06:54:31PM +0100, hw wrote: > Ah, yes. I tricked myself because I don't have hd installed, It's just a symlink to hexdump. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 20 2022 /usr/bin/hd -> hexdump unicorn:~$ dpkg -S usr/bin/hd bsdextrautils: /usr/bin/hd unicorn:~$ dpkg -S usr/bin/hex

Re: weird directory entry on ZFS volume (Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)))

2022-11-10 Thread hw
On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 09:30 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 02:48:28PM +0100, hw wrote: > > On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 07:03 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [...] > > printf '%s\0' * | hexdump > > 000 00c2 6177 7468     > > 007 > > I dislike this outp

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-10 Thread Dan Ritter
Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:48:43 -0500 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > Hello Dan, > > >8 is not a magic number. > > Clearly, you don't read Terry Pratchett. :-) In the context of ZFS, 8 is not a magic number. May you be ridiculed by Pictsies. -dsr-

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-10 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 10 Nov 2022 08:48:43 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: Hello Dan, >8 is not a magic number. Clearly, you don't read Terry Pratchett. :-) -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{dash}{space}" / ) "The blindingly obvious is never immediately apparent" / _)rad

Re: weird directory entry on ZFS volume (Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)))

2022-11-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 02:48:28PM +0100, hw wrote: > On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 07:03 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > good idea: > > printf %s * | hexdump > 000 77c2 6861 0074 > 005 Looks like there might be more than one file here. > > If you misrepresented the situat

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-10 Thread Dan Ritter
hw wrote: > And I've been reading that when using ZFS, you shouldn't make volumes with > more > than 8 disks. That's very inconvenient. Where do you read these things? The number of disks in a zvol can be optimized, depending on your desired redundancy method, total number of drives, and tole

weird directory entry on ZFS volume (Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)))

2022-11-10 Thread hw
On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 07:03 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 05:54:00AM +0100, hw wrote: > > ls -la > > insgesamt 5 > > drwxr-xr-x  3 namefoo namefoo    3 16. Aug 22:36 . > > drwxr-xr-x 24 root    root    4096  1. Nov 2017  .. > > drwxr-xr-x  2 namefoo namefoo    2 21. Jan 2020

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-10 Thread DdB
Am 10.11.2022 um 13:03 schrieb Greg Wooledge: > If it turns out that '?' really is the filename, then it becomes a ZFS > issue with which I can't help. just tested: i could create, rename, delete a file with that name on a zfs filesystem just as with any other fileystem. But: i recall having seen

block devices vs. partitions (Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)))

2022-11-10 Thread hw
On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 10:59 +0100, DdB wrote: > Am 10.11.2022 um 04:46 schrieb hw: > > On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 18:26 +0100, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > > > Am Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 06:11:34PM +0100 schrieb hw: > > > [...] > [...] > > > > > Why would partitions be better than the block device itself?

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-10 Thread hw
On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 10:34 +0100, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > Am Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 04:46:12AM +0100 schrieb hw: > > On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 18:26 +0100, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > > > Am Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 06:11:34PM +0100 schrieb hw: > > > [...] > [...] > > > > > > > Why would partitions

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 05:54:00AM +0100, hw wrote: > ls -la > insgesamt 5 > drwxr-xr-x 3 namefoo namefoo3 16. Aug 22:36 . > drwxr-xr-x 24 rootroot4096 1. Nov 2017 .. > drwxr-xr-x 2 namefoo namefoo2 21. Jan 2020 ? > namefoo@host /srv/datadir $ ls -la '?' > ls: Zugriff auf ? nic

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-10 Thread DdB
Am 10.11.2022 um 04:46 schrieb hw: > On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 18:26 +0100, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: >> Am Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 06:11:34PM +0100 schrieb hw: >> [...] >>> FreeBSD has ZFS but can't even configure the disk controllers, so that won't >>> work.  >> >> If I understand you right you mean R

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-10 Thread Christoph Brinkhaus
Am Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 04:46:12AM +0100 schrieb hw: > On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 18:26 +0100, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > > Am Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 06:11:34PM +0100 schrieb hw: > > [...] > > > FreeBSD has ZFS but can't even configure the disk controllers, so that > > > won't > > > work.  > > > > If

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-09 Thread hw
On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 19:17 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > hw writes: > > > On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 14:29 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: > > > Le 09/11/2022 à 12:41, hw a écrit : > > [...] > > > > I am really not so well aware of ZFS state but my impression was that: > > > - FUSE implementation of ZoL (ZF

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-09 Thread hw
On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 18:26 +0100, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > Am Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 06:11:34PM +0100 schrieb hw: > [...] > > FreeBSD has ZFS but can't even configure the disk controllers, so that won't > > work.  > > If I understand you right you mean RAID controllers? yes > According to my

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-09 Thread Linux-Fan
hw writes: On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 14:29 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 09/11/2022 à 12:41, hw a écrit : [...] > I am really not so well aware of ZFS state but my impression was that: > - FUSE implementation of ZoL (ZFS on Linux) is deprecated and that, > Ubuntu excepted (classic module?), Z

Re: else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-09 Thread Christoph Brinkhaus
Am Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 06:11:34PM +0100 schrieb hw: Hi hw, > On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 14:29 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: > > Le 09/11/2022 à 12:41, hw a écrit : > > [...] > > > In any case, I'm currently tending to think that putting FreeBSD with ZFS > > > on > > > my > > > server might be the best

else or Debian (Re: ZFS performance (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?))

2022-11-09 Thread hw
On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 14:29 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 09/11/2022 à 12:41, hw a écrit : > [...] > > In any case, I'm currently tending to think that putting FreeBSD with ZFS on > > my > > server might be the best option.  But then, apparently I won't be able to > > configure the controller ca