Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-08-01 Thread Adrian Ulrich
So ZFS isn't state-of-the-art? Of course it's state-of-the-art (on Solaris ;-) ) WAFL is for high-turnover filesystems on RAID-5 (and assumes flash memory staging areas). s/RAID-5/RAID-4/ Not your run-of-the-mill desktop... The WAFL-Thing was just a joke ;-) Regards, Adrian

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-08-01 Thread Adrian Ulrich
suspect, particularly with 7200/min (s)ATA crap. Quoting myself (again): A quick'n'dirty ZFS-vs-UFS-vs-Reiser3-vs-Reiser4-vs-Ext3 'benchmark' Yeah, the test ran on a single SATA-Harddisk (quick'n'dirty). I'm so sorry but i don't have access to a $$$ Raid-System at home. Anyway: The test

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-08-01 Thread Matthias Andree
Adrian Ulrich schrieb am 2006-08-01: suspect, particularly with 7200/min (s)ATA crap. Quoting myself (again): A quick'n'dirty ZFS-vs-UFS-vs-Reiser3-vs-Reiser4-vs-Ext3 'benchmark' Yeah, the test ran on a single SATA-Harddisk (quick'n'dirty). I'm so sorry but i don't have access to a

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-08-01 Thread Avi Kivity
Matthias Andree wrote: No, it is valid to run the test on commodity hardware, but if you (or the benchmark rather) is claiming transactions, I tend to think ACID, and I highly doubt any 200 GB SATA drive manages 3000 synchronous writes per second without causing either serious fragmentation or

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-08-01 Thread Jan Engelhardt
I didn't mean to say your particular drive were crap, but 200GB SATA drives are low end, like it or not -- And you think an 18 GB SCSI disk just does it better because it's SCSI? Esp. in long sequential reads. Jan Engelhardt --

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-08-01 Thread Matthias Andree
Jan Engelhardt schrieb am 2006-08-01: I didn't mean to say your particular drive were crap, but 200GB SATA drives are low end, like it or not -- And you think an 18 GB SCSI disk just does it better because it's SCSI? 18 GB SCSI disks are 1999 gear, so who cares? Seagate didn't sell 200 GB

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-08-01 Thread Jan Engelhardt
I didn't mean to say your particular drive were crap, but 200GB SATA drives are low end, like it or not -- And you think an 18 GB SCSI disk just does it better because it's SCSI? 18 GB SCSI disks are 1999 gear, so who cares? Seagate didn't sell 200 GB SATA drives at that time. Esp. in long

Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Adrian Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] ZFS uses 'dnodes'. The dnodes are allocated on demand from your available space so running out of [di]nodes is impossible. Great to see that Sun ships a state-of-the-art Filesystem with Solaris... I think linux should do the same... This would

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread Toby Thain
On 31-Jul-06, at 11:18 PM, Horst H. von Brand wrote: Adrian Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] ZFS uses 'dnodes'. The dnodes are allocated on demand from your available space so running out of [di]nodes is impossible. Great to see that Sun ships a state-of-the-art Filesystem with

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread Adrian Ulrich
Great to see that Sun ships a state-of-the-art Filesystem with Solaris... I think linux should do the same... This would be worthwhile, if only to be able to futz around in Solaris-made filesystems. s/I think linux should do the same/I think linux should include Reiser4/ ;-) First

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread Matthias Andree
Adrian Ulrich wrote: See also: http://spam.workaround.ch/dull/postmark.txt A quick'n'dirty ZFS-vs-UFS-vs-Reiser3-vs-Reiser4-vs-Ext3 'benchmark' Whatever Postmark does, this looks pretty besides the point. Are these actual transactions with the Durability guarantee? 3000/s doesn't look too

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Adrian Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great to see that Sun ships a state-of-the-art Filesystem with Solaris... I think linux should do the same... This would be worthwhile, if only to be able to futz around in Solaris-made filesystems. s/I think linux should do the same/I think

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread Nate Diller
On 7/31/06, Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian Ulrich wrote: See also: http://spam.workaround.ch/dull/postmark.txt A quick'n'dirty ZFS-vs-UFS-vs-Reiser3-vs-Reiser4-vs-Ext3 'benchmark' Whatever Postmark does, this looks pretty besides the point. why's that? postmark is one of

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread Nate Diller
On 7/31/06, Horst H. von Brand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian Ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great to see that Sun ships a state-of-the-art Filesystem with Solaris... I think linux should do the same... This would be worthwhile, if only to be able to futz around in Solaris-made

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Nate Diller wrote: On 7/31/06, Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian Ulrich wrote: See also: http://spam.workaround.ch/dull/postmark.txt A quick'n'dirty ZFS-vs-UFS-vs-Reiser3-vs-Reiser4-vs-Ext3 'benchmark' Whatever Postmark does, this looks pretty besides

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread Nate Diller
On 7/31/06, David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Nate Diller wrote: On 7/31/06, Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian Ulrich wrote: See also: http://spam.workaround.ch/dull/postmark.txt A quick'n'dirty ZFS-vs-UFS-vs-Reiser3-vs-Reiser4-vs-Ext3 'benchmark'

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Nate Diller wrote: On 7/31/06, David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Nate Diller wrote: On 7/31/06, Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian Ulrich wrote: See also: http://spam.workaround.ch/dull/postmark.txt A quick'n'dirty

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread Nate Diller
On 7/31/06, David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Nate Diller wrote: On 7/31/06, David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Nate Diller wrote: On 7/31/06, Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adrian Ulrich wrote: See also:

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread Matthias Andree
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Nate Diller wrote: this is only a limitation for filesystems which do in-place data and metadata updates. this is why i mentioned the similarities to log file systems (see rosenblum and ousterhout, 1991). they observed an order-of-magnitude increase in performance for

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread Nate Diller
On 7/31/06, Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Nate Diller wrote: this is only a limitation for filesystems which do in-place data and metadata updates. this is why i mentioned the similarities to log file systems (see rosenblum and ousterhout, 1991). they

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread David Masover
Matthias Andree wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Nate Diller wrote: this is only a limitation for filesystems which do in-place data and metadata updates. this is why i mentioned the similarities to log file systems (see rosenblum and ousterhout, 1991). they observed an order-of-magnitude

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread Theodore Tso
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:31:32PM -0500, David Masover wrote: So you use a repacker. Nice thing about a repacker is, everyone has downtime. Better to plan to be a little sluggish when you'll have 1/10th or 1/50th of the users than be MUCH slower all the time. Actually, that's a problem

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread David Masover
Theodore Tso wrote: On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:31:32PM -0500, David Masover wrote: So you use a repacker. Nice thing about a repacker is, everyone has downtime. Better to plan to be a little sluggish when you'll have 1/10th or 1/50th of the users than be MUCH slower all the time. Actually,

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread Timothy Webster
Different users have different needs. I agree, there are many users who can not afford any downtime. I worked at the NYSE and they reboot all their computers once a week. We had a policy at NYSE. If you suspect a computer has hardware problems, take it off line. It is better to be short a few

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread David Masover
Timothy Webster wrote: Different users have different needs. I'm having trouble thinking of users who need an FS that doesn't need a repacker. The disk error problem, though, you're right -- most users will have to get bitten by this, hard, at least once, or they'll never get the

Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the 'official' point of view expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

2006-07-31 Thread Mike Benoit
On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 23:00 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: The problem is that many benchmarks (such as taring and untaring the kernel sources in reiser4 sort order) are overly simplistic, in that they don't really reflect how people use the filesystem in real life. (How many times can you