[zfs-discuss] half duplex read/write operations to disk sometimes?

2006-07-15 Thread Sean Meighan
Hi Roch; thanks for the discussion yesterday. I said I would plot the iostat data, here it is. The strange thing is the seeming half duplex operation of ZFS. Here is a 45 minute plot of %zpool iostat 1 The x-axis is data gathered every second. Note that when the write cycle seems to start at

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hardware compatibility list for Open Solaris ZFS

2006-07-15 Thread Richard Elling
Kieran wrote: I have seen the recommendation for the Marvell storage controller. http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AoC-SAT2-MV8.cfm This uses the Marvell 88SX6081, which is supported by the marvell88sx(7D0 driver in Solaris. This is the same SATA controller chip used in th

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirroring better with RAID-Z?

2006-07-15 Thread Richard Elling
David Abrahams wrote: I have lots to learn, so this question may be riddled with misconceptions, but here goes: My understanding is that ordinary RAID-1 is only really resilient to the extent that you can tell which of the two disks has the bad data (e.g. if one whole disk is smoked, it's

Re: [zfs-discuss] How to monitor ZFS ?

2006-07-15 Thread Torrey McMahon
eric kustarz wrote: martin wrote: How could i monitor zfs ? or the zpool activity ? I want to know if anything wrong is going on. If i could receive those warning by email, it would be great :) For pool health: # zpool status -x all pools are healthy # To monitor activity, use 'zpool i

[zfs-discuss] Hardware compatibility list for Open Solaris ZFS

2006-07-15 Thread Kieran
I have seen the recommendation for the Marvell storage controller. http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AoC-SAT2-MV8.cfm I know that about a year ago some Sun folks were recommending a Nvidia chipset but I assume that would have changed or been expanded over a year. How could

[zfs-discuss] Mirroring better with RAID-Z?

2006-07-15 Thread David Abrahams
I have lots to learn, so this question may be riddled with misconceptions, but here goes: My understanding is that ordinary RAID-1 is only really resilient to the extent that you can tell which of the two disks has the bad data (e.g. if one whole disk is smoked, it's easy). Is mirroring

Re: [zfs-discuss] pools are zfs file systems?

2006-07-15 Thread David Magda
On Jul 15, 2006, at 04:31, Jeff Bonwick wrote: Grab a cup of coffee and get comfortable. Ready? Oh, what a can of worms this was. Between weblogs and this mailing list, there seems to be a lot of talk about the "whys" on the design of ZFS. Being around for the public 'birth' of a new fil

[zfs-discuss] Re: pools are zfs file systems?

2006-07-15 Thread Adrian Saul
when playing with ZFS to try and come up with some standards for using it in our environment I also disliked having the pool directory mounted when my intentions were not to us it, but subdivide the space with in it. Simple fix: zpool create data zfs create data/share zfs create data/oracle zf

[zfs-discuss] zvol of files for Oracle?

2006-07-15 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello zfs-discuss, What would you rather propose for ZFS+ORACLE - zvols or just files from the performance standpoint? -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] pools are zfs file systems?

2006-07-15 Thread Jeff Bonwick
> Can anyone tell me why pool created with zpool are also zfs file systems > (and mounted) which can be used for storing files? It would have been > more transparent if pool would not allow the storage of files. Grab a cup of coffee and get comfortable. Ready? Oh, what a can of worms this was.