Re: Re[4]: [zfs-discuss] Preferred backup mechanism for ZFS?

2007-04-22 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
On 4/20/07, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Wee, Friday, April 20, 2007, 5:20:00 AM, you wrote: WYT> On 4/20/07, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You can limit how much memory zfs can use for its caching. >> WYT> Indeed, but that memory will still be locked. Ho

[zfs-discuss] Restrictions on ZFS boot?

2007-04-22 Thread Mario Goebbels
I just perused through the ZFS Best Practices wiki entry on solarisinternals.com and it says that for ZFS boot, the pool is restricted to one disk and mirror pools. Is this still applicable to build 62 and the mentioned "new code"? The availability of the "zpool set bootfs" command suggests tha

[zfs-discuss] Metaslab allocation control?

2007-04-22 Thread Mario Goebbels
I was wondering if it's planned to give some control over the metaslab allocation into the hands of the user. What I have in mind is an attribute on a ZFS filesystem that acts as modifier to the allocator. Scenarios for this would be directly controlling performance characteristics, e.g. having

Re: [zfs-discuss] Restrictions on ZFS boot?

2007-04-22 Thread Richard Elling
Mario Goebbels wrote: I just perused through the ZFS Best Practices wiki entry on solarisinternals.com and it says that for ZFS boot, the pool is restricted to one disk and mirror pools. Is this still applicable to build 62 and the mentioned "new code"? I'm not sure what you mean by "one dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] Metaslab allocation control?

2007-04-22 Thread Richard Elling
Mario Goebbels wrote: I was wondering if it's planned to give some control over the metaslab allocation into the hands of the user. What I have in mind is an attribute on a ZFS filesystem that acts as modifier to the allocator. Scenarios for this would be directly controlling performance chara

[zfs-discuss] ZFS boot from compressed zfs

2007-04-22 Thread Cyril Plisko
Hi, I am having problem booting from the zfs filesystem with compression set to gzip. I netinstalled machine and switched the compression to gzip during early installation stages. After the installation I am getting straight to the GRUB prompt instead of the normal menu. The attempt to manually e

[zfs-discuss] Re: Restrictions on ZFS boot?

2007-04-22 Thread Mario Goebbels
With "one disk" I basically mean pools consisting of a single toplevel vdev. The current documentation poses this restriction, either a single disk or a mirror. The thing I have in mind is the ability to create a single pool of all disks in a system as top level devices, basically a JBOD or eve

[zfs-discuss] Re: Bitrot and panics

2007-04-22 Thread Andrew
eschrock wrote: > Unfortunately, there is one exception to this rule. ZFS currently does > not handle write failure in an unreplicated pool. As part of writing > out data, it is sometimes necessary to read in space map data. If this > fails, then we can panic due to write failure. This is a known b

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Bitrot and panics

2007-04-22 Thread Eric Schrock
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 01:57:50PM -0700, Andrew wrote: > eschrock wrote: > > Unfortunately, there is one exception to this rule. ZFS currently does > > not handle write failure in an unreplicated pool. As part of writing > > out data, it is sometimes necessary to read in space map data. If this >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot from compressed zfs

2007-04-22 Thread Eric Schrock
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 08:53:04PM +0300, Cyril Plisko wrote: > Hi, > > I am having problem booting from the zfs filesystem with compression > set to gzip. I netinstalled machine and switched the compression to > gzip during early installation stages. After the installation I am > getting straigh

[zfs-discuss] Re: zfs boot image conversion kit is posted

2007-04-22 Thread Ron Halstead
> The kit that I promised for patching an install image > to support the profile-based install of systems with > zfs root file systems has been posted. It's at: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/install/files/ > zfsboot-kit-20060418.i386.tar.bz2 > > Unpack it and see the README file fo

[zfs-discuss] SPARC: no cache synchronize

2007-04-22 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello zfs-discuss, bash-3.00# uname -a SunOS nfs-10-1.srv 5.10 Generic_125100-04 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440 zil_disable set to 1 Disks are over FCAL from 3510. bash-3.00# dtrace -n fbt::*SYNCHRONIZE*:entry'{printf("%Y",walltimestamp);}' dtrace: description 'fbt::*SYNCHRONIZE*:entry' matched

Re[6]: [zfs-discuss] Preferred backup mechanism for ZFS?

2007-04-22 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Wee, Sunday, April 22, 2007, 11:25:23 AM, you wrote: WYT> On 4/20/07, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello Wee, >> >> Friday, April 20, 2007, 5:20:00 AM, you wrote: >> >> WYT> On 4/20/07, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> You can limit how much memory zfs can

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Restrictions on ZFS boot?

2007-04-22 Thread Lin Ling
Mario Goebbels wrote: With "one disk" I basically mean pools consisting of a single toplevel vdev. The current documentation poses this restriction, either a single disk or a mirror. Yes, it is still the case that the roopool has to be either a single vdev pool or a mirror. Currently, we

Re[3]: [zfs-discuss] 120473-05

2007-04-22 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Robert, Friday, April 13, 2007, 2:07:11 AM, you wrote: RM> Hello Enda, RM> Thursday, April 12, 2007, 2:36:39 PM, you wrote: EOCSMSI>> Robert Milkowski wrote: >>> Hello Enda, >>> >>> Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 4:21:35 PM, you wrote: >>> >>> EOCSMSI> Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello zf

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot from compressed zfs

2007-04-22 Thread Lin Ling
Eric Schrock wrote: This is: 6538017 ZFS boot to support gzip decompression This should be fixed in the near future. In the meantime, lzjb should work just fine (albeit with lower compression ratio). Unfortunately, lzjb is not working well and needs to be fixed as well, see: 6541114 GRUB

[zfs-discuss] slow sync on zfs

2007-04-22 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello zfs-discuss, Relatively low traffic to the pool but sync takes too long to complete and other operations are also not that fast. Disks are on 3510 array. zil_disable=1. bash-3.00# ptime sync real 1:21.569 user0.001 sys 0.027 During sync zpool iostat and vmstat loo

Re: Re[6]: [zfs-discuss] Preferred backup mechanism for ZFS?

2007-04-22 Thread Wee Yeh Tan
On 4/23/07, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: bash-3.00# mdb -k Loading modules: [ unix krtld genunix dtrace specfs ufs sd pcisch md ip sctp usba fcp fctl qlc ssd crypto lofs zfs random ptm cpc nfs ] > segmap_percent/D segmap_percent: segmap_percent: 12 (it's static IIRC) segmap_per

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: zfs boot image conversion kit is posted

2007-04-22 Thread Lori Alt
I tried your kit, specifically the "Detailed Steps for the Install" Unfortunately, it didn't work. I copy / pasted the profile from the README file, then did pfinstall /tmp/profile. The error was: Error: Field 1 - Keyword "pool" is invalid. Perhaps I messed up? This error is what I would e

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Restrictions on ZFS boot?

2007-04-22 Thread Lori Alt
Mario Goebbels wrote: With "one disk" I basically mean pools consisting of a single toplevel vdev. The current documentation poses this restriction, either a single disk or a mirror. The thing I have in mind is the ability to create a single pool of all disks in a system as top level device

Re: [zfs-discuss] Preferred backup mechanism for ZFS?

2007-04-22 Thread Manoj Joseph
Wee Yeh Tan wrote: On 4/23/07, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: bash-3.00# mdb -k Loading modules: [ unix krtld genunix dtrace specfs ufs sd pcisch md ip sctp usba fcp fctl qlc ssd crypto lofs zfs random ptm cpc nfs ] > segmap_percent/D segmap_percent: segmap_percent: 12 (it's stat