[zfs-discuss] ZFS Usage in Warehousing (lengthy intro)

2006-12-08 Thread Jochen M. Kaiser
Dear all, we're currently looking forward to restructure our hardware environment for our datawarehousing product/suite/solution/whatever. We're currently running the database side on various SF V440's attached via dual FC to our SAN backend (EMC DMX3) with UFS. The storage system is (obviously

[zfs-discuss] Vanity ZVOL paths?

2006-12-08 Thread Jignesh K. Shah
Hello ZFS Experts I have two ZFS pools zpool1 and zpool2 I am trying to create bunch of zvols such that their paths are similar except for consisent number scheme without reference to the zpools that actually belong. (This will allow me to have common references in my setup scripts) If I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zpool import takes to long with large numbers of file systems

2006-12-08 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Roch, That's a pretty cool idea! -J On 12/8/06, Roch - PAE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I got around that some time ago with a little hack; Maintain a directory with soft links to disks of interest: ls -l .../mydsklist total 50 lrwxrwxrwx 1 cx158393 staff 17 Apr 29 2006 c1t0d0s1

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS compression / ARC interaction

2006-12-08 Thread Darren J Moffat
Mark Maybee wrote: Yup, your assumption is correct. We currently do compression below the ARC. We have contemplated caching data in compressed form, but have not really explored the idea fully yet. The same applies to encryption, the current play is to encrypt just after where we currently c

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zpool import takes to long with large numbers of file systems

2006-12-08 Thread Roch - PAE
I got around that some time ago with a little hack; Maintain a directory with soft links to disks of interest: ls -l .../mydsklist total 50 lrwxrwxrwx 1 cx158393 staff 17 Apr 29 2006 c1t0d0s1 -> /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 cx158393 staff 18 Apr 29 2006 c1t16d0s1 -> /de

Re: [zfs-discuss] A Plea for Help: Thumper/ZFS/NFS/B43

2006-12-08 Thread Ben Rockwood
eric kustarz wrote: So i'm guessing there's lots of files being created over NFS in one particular dataset? We should figure out how many creates/second you are doing over NFS (i should have put a timeout on the script). Here's a real simple one (from your snoop it looked like you're only do