Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 28/12/2010 23:56, Freek van Hemert wrote: I have a question regarding zfs on freebsd. (I'm making a home server) This afternoon I did a zpool create data mirror ad4 ad6 Now I'm copying things from my ufs2 disk into the 2TB zpool, it is very slow. I'm on freebsd 8.1 amd64 on an atom n330

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-29 Thread Freek van Hemert
Thanx for all the replies. The hacks sounds good until 8.2 is released however, regarding this upgrade, is the on-disk format the same? Can I just add the pool to a new install (of 8.2-RC) and expect higher performance? Or do I need to recreate the pool with the newer versions of the utilities?

Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE: Kernel Panic

2010-12-29 Thread Jean-Yves Avenard
On Wednesday, 29 December 2010, jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote: Another note too, I think I read that you mentioned using the L2ARC and slog device on the same disk You simply shouldn't do this it could be contributing to the real cause and there is absolutely no gain in either sanity or

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-29 Thread Stefan Huerter
Guckux Freek The hacks sounds good until 8.2 is released however, regarding this upgrade, is the on-disk format the same? Can I just add the pool to a new install (of 8.2-RC) and expect higher performance? Or do I need to recreate the pool with the newer versions of the utilities? just do

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-29 Thread Guido Falsi
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:55:57AM +0100, Stefan Huerter wrote: Guckux Freek The hacks sounds good until 8.2 is released however, regarding this upgrade, is the on-disk format the same? Can I just add the pool to a new install (of 8.2-RC) and expect higher performance? Or do I need to

Re: 8.2-RC1: installer does not recognize some disks properly

2010-12-29 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Claus Assmann freebsd+sta...@esmtp.orgfreebsd%2bsta...@esmtp.org wrote: I just tried to install 8.2-RC1 (amd64) on one of my machines. It has two disks: WDC WD1001FALS-4 and SAMSUNG HD103SJ, both 1TB SATA disks. The installer shows them as ad10 and ad8. Both

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 29/12/2010 08:57, Freek van Hemert wrote: The hacks sounds good until 8.2 is released however, regarding this upgrade, is the on-disk format the same? Can I just add the pool to a new install (of 8.2-RC) and expect higher performance? Or do I need to recreate the pool with the newer

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-29 Thread Jean-Yves Avenard
On Thursday, 30 December 2010, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: No -- the on-disk format is different.  ZFS will run fine with the older on-disk formats, but you won't get the full benefits without updating them.   You'll need to run both 'zpool update -a' and 'zfs update

Re: root mount error

2010-12-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Dec-28 23:08:44 +0300, Michael BlackHeart amdm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm jsut trying to say than recent changes in kernel or kernel-modules broke up my HDD support and I'd like to notice developres to check where the problem is. It doesn't work that way. The developers don't have a problem

Re: slow ZFS on FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-29 Thread Dan Langille
On 12/29/2010 12:47 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 29/12/2010 08:57, Freek van Hemert wrote: The hacks sounds good until 8.2 is released however, regarding this upgrade, is the on-disk format the same? Can I just add the pool to a new install (of 8.2-RC) and expect higher performance? Or do I