Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS write time performance question

2007-12-03 Thread przemolicc
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 02:05:13PM -0800, Brendan Gregg - Sun Microsystems wrote: I'd recommend running filebench for filesystem benchmarks, and see what the results are: http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/FileBench Filebench is able to purge the ZFS cache

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-12-03 Thread Tom Buskey
I never said I was a typical consumer. After all, I bought a $1600 DSLR. If you look around photo forums, you'll see an interest the digital workflow which includes long term storage and archiving. A chunk of these users will opt for an external RAID box (10%? 20%?). I suspect ZFS will

Re: [zfs-discuss] Delegating iscsishare zfs permissions (iscsitgtd privileges)

2007-12-03 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
I'm seeing some other issues with delegation+iscisi with the latest Nevada bits. I will need to investigate them and will likely raise some bugs once I figure out whats going on. Thanks. For now my sudo wrapper works, but I would be very happy if this can be sorted out without any hacks.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best stripe-size in array for ZFS mail storage?

2007-12-03 Thread Vincent Fox
Thanks for your observations. HOWEVER, I didn't pose the question How do I architect the HA and storage and everything for an email system? Our site like many other data centers has HA standards and politics and all this other baggage that may lead a design to a certain point. Thus our answer

[zfs-discuss] What does dataset is busy actually mean?

2007-12-03 Thread Reid Spencer
Hello, I'm trying to track down a problem with taking zfs snapshots. On occasion the zfs command will report: cannot snapshot 'dataset name': dataset is busy The problem is, I don't know what causes zfs to think the data set is busy. Anyone out there know what constitutes a busy dataset? I did

Re: [zfs-discuss] I screwed up my zpool

2007-12-03 Thread jonathan soons
revised indentation: mirror2 / # zpool status pool: tank state: ONLINE scrub: none requested config: NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM tankONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2ONLINE 0 0 0 c0t1d0 ONLINE 0 0 0

[zfs-discuss] Help replacing dual identity disk in ZFS raidz and SVM mirror

2007-12-03 Thread Matt B
Hi, We have a number of 4200's setup using a combination of an SVM 4 way mirror and a ZFS raidz stripe. Each disk (of 4) is divided up like this / 6GB UFS s0 Swap 8GB s1 /var 6GB UFS s3 Metadb 50MB UFS s4 /data 48GB ZFS s5 For SVM we do a 4 way mirror on /,swap, and /var So we have 3 SVM

[zfs-discuss] I screwed up my zpool

2007-12-03 Thread jonathan soons
mirror2 / # zpool history History for 'tank': 2007-11-07.14:15:19 zpool create -f tank raidz2 c0t0d0 c0t1d0 c0t2d0 c2t0d0 c2t1d0 c2t2d0 c3t0d0 c3t1d0 c3t2d0 c3t3d0 2007-11-07.14:17:21 zfs set atime=off tank 2007-11-07.14:18:16 zfs create tank/datatel 2007-11-07.14:52:16 zfs set

Re: [zfs-discuss] I screwed up my zpool

2007-12-03 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Jonathan, Thanks for providing the zpool history output. :-) You probably missed the message after this command: # zpool add tank c4t0d0 invalid vdev specification use '-f' to override the following errors: mismatched replication level: pool uses raidz and new vdev is disk I provided some

[zfs-discuss] ZFS metadata

2007-12-03 Thread Michael A Walters
Can someone point me to a whitepaper, blog, or other document that discusses ZFS' metadata structure and properties? Thanks, Michael ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] why are these three ZFS caches using so much kmem?

2007-12-03 Thread James C. McPherson
Got an issue which is rather annoying to me - three of my ZFS caches are regularly using nearly 1/2 of the 1.09Gb of allocated kmem in my system ultra20 m2 1x 2.2GHz dual-core Opteron 2Gb ram, 16Gb swap 2 zpools, not ZFS root snv_77 2 non-global

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS metadata

2007-12-03 Thread Rayson Ho
Have you read the ZFS On-Disk Specification?? http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ Or are you trying to find something specific?? Rayson On Dec 3, 2007 5:31 PM, Michael A Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone point me to a whitepaper, blog, or other document that

[zfs-discuss] /usr/sbin/install.d/chkprobe - awk: division by zero with zfs disks

2007-12-03 Thread Matthew Flanagan
Hi, I have a system that had Solaris 10 8/07 previously installed with disks c0t0d0 and c0t1d0 mirrored using SVM and c0t2d0 and c0t3d0 added as whole disks to a zpool. When attempting to reinstall the OS via jumpstart the following error is output: ... Using rules.ok from jumpstart:/js.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS metadata

2007-12-03 Thread Anton B. Rang
My guess is that you're looking for the on-disk format document: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ondiskformat0822.pdf If you're more interested in the user-visible metadata (e.g. the settings for pools and filesystems), then you'd probably have to dig through the various

Re: [zfs-discuss] I screwed up my zpool

2007-12-03 Thread Anton B. Rang
2007-11-07.14:15:19 zpool create -f tank raidz2 [ ... ] 2007-12-03.14:42:28 zpool add tank c4t0d0 c4t0d0 is not part of raidz2. How can I fix this? Back up your data; destroy the pool; and re-create it. Ideally I would like to create another zpool with c4t0d0 plus some more disks since

Re: [zfs-discuss] why are these three ZFS caches using so much kmem?

2007-12-03 Thread James C. McPherson
Anton B. Rang wrote: Got an issue which is rather annoying to me - three of my ZFS caches are regularly using nearly 1/2 of the 1.09Gb of allocated kmem in my system. I think this is just the ARC; you can limit its size using: