Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-21 Thread Darren J Moffat
Matty wrote: On Jan 18, 2008 7:35 AM, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sengor wrote: On 1/17/08, Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but is ZFS with compression safe to use in a production environment? Yes, why wouldn't it be ? If it wasn't safe it wouldn't

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS shared /home between zones

2008-01-21 Thread Darren J Moffat
Torsten Paul Eichstädt wrote: a loopback mount, not a dataset, does what you want. in zonecfg, do: add fs set special=/export/home set dir=/home set type=lofs add options rw,nodevices,noexec,nosetuid end verify # man zonecfg Make sure the local zones have the same userids as the

[zfs-discuss] LVM on ZFS

2008-01-21 Thread Thiago Sobral
Hi folks, I need to manage volumes like LVM does on Linux or AIX, and I think that ZFS can solve this issue. I read the SVM specification and certainly it doesn't will be the solution that I'll adopt. I don't have Veritas here. I created a pool with name black and a volume lv00, then created

Re: [zfs-discuss] LVM on ZFS

2008-01-21 Thread Thomas Maier-Komor
Thiago Sobral schrieb: Hi folks, I need to manage volumes like LVM does on Linux or AIX, and I think that ZFS can solve this issue. I read the SVM specification and certainly it doesn't will be the solution that I'll adopt. I don't have Veritas here. Why do you think it doesn't fit

Re: [zfs-discuss] LVM on ZFS

2008-01-21 Thread Darren J Moffat
Thiago Sobral wrote: Hi folks, I need to manage volumes like LVM does on Linux or AIX, and I think that ZFS can solve this issue. I read the SVM specification and certainly it doesn't will be the solution that I'll adopt. I don't have Veritas here. Specifically what is SVM missing that

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Internals Deep Dive - Where can I find it?

2008-01-21 Thread J Duff
The September 16, 2006 entry in Jeff Bonwick’s blog says “Bill Moore and I will host a four-hour deep dive into ZFS internals at the 2006 Storage Developer Conference in San Jose.” Were the contents of this deep dive ever published in a document or video? If not, will there be another ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Internals Deep Dive - Where can I find it?

2008-01-21 Thread Jarod Nash
J Duff wrote: The best internals discussion I have found so far is the ZFS Source Tour at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/source/, but I was hoping to find even more detailed information. check out the ZFS: Under the Hood by myself and Jason Banham. i presented this at the London

Re: [zfs-discuss] Q : change disks to get bigger pool

2008-01-21 Thread Peter Schuller
I don't believe this is true. Online replacement is smart enough to pick this up. Where you hare to re-import is when you change the size of a LUN without doing a zpool replace. I see. I have never had the hardware necessary to actually try hotswaps, but I remember some people complaining

Re: [zfs-discuss] LVM on ZFS

2008-01-21 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hey Thiago, SVM is a direct replacement for LVM. Also, you'll notice about a 30% performance boost if you move from LVM to SVM. At least we did when we moved a couple of years ago. -J On Jan 21, 2008 8:09 AM, Thiago Sobral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I need to manage volumes like LVM

Re: [zfs-discuss] De-duplication in ZFS

2008-01-21 Thread John Martinez
Great question. I've been wondering this myself over the past few weeks, as de-dup is becoming more popular a term in our IT department. -john On Jan 20, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Narayan Venkat wrote: Hi, Is de-duplication in ZFS an active project? If so, can somebody share details about how

[zfs-discuss] problem with nfs share of zfs storage

2008-01-21 Thread Francois Dion
I have a need to stream video over nfs. video is stored on zfs. every 10 minutes or so, the video will freeze, and then 1 minute later it resumes. This doesn't happen from an nfs mount on ufs. zfs server is a 32 bit P4 box with 512MB, running nexenta in plain text mode, and nothing else, really.

Re: [zfs-discuss] De-duplication in ZFS

2008-01-21 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
It'd be a really nice feature. Combined with baked-in replication it would be a nice alternative to our DD appliances. -J On Jan 21, 2008 2:03 PM, John Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great question. I've been wondering this myself over the past few weeks, as de-dup is becoming more popular

[zfs-discuss] Swap on ZVOL safe to use?

2008-01-21 Thread Scott
Hello, I have several servers swapping to ZVOLs, and I appears to be encountering the below bug: http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6528296 Does anyone have any comments on the reliability of using ZVOLs for swap? Are there any workarounds to prevent bug 6528296? This message

Re: [zfs-discuss] Swap on ZVOL safe to use?

2008-01-21 Thread Lori Alt
The bug is being actively worked at this time (it just got a boost in urgency as a result of the issues it was causing for the zfs boot project). It is likely that there will be a fix soon (sooner than zfs boot will be available). In the meantime, I know of no workaround. Maybe someone else

Re: [zfs-discuss] LVM on ZFS

2008-01-21 Thread Louwtjie Burger
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461 On Jan 21, 2008 5:09 PM, Thiago Sobral [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I need to manage volumes like LVM does on Linux or AIX, and I think that ZFS can solve this issue. I read the SVM specification and certainly it doesn't will be the solution