Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshots silently eating user quota

2008-03-20 Thread Eric Schrock
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 06:41:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > There was an change request put in to disable snaps affecting quota limits > -- not sure if it went anywhere. > This went back into snv_77 with: 6431277 want filesystem-only quotas It is available as the 'refquota' property.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshots silently eating user quota

2008-03-20 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 03/20/2008 05:12:01 PM: > All, > I assume this issue is pretty old given the time ZFS has been > around. I have tried searching the list but could not get understand > the structure of how ZFS actually takes snapshot space into account. > Snapshot space recording does n

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup-ing up ZFS configurations

2008-03-20 Thread eric kustarz
On Mar 20, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello Cyril, > > Thursday, March 20, 2008, 9:51:35 PM, you wrote: > > CP> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Mark A. Carlson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> I think the answer is that the configuration is hidden >>> and cannot be back

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup-ing up ZFS configurations

2008-03-20 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Cyril, Thursday, March 20, 2008, 9:51:35 PM, you wrote: CP> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Mark A. Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I think the answer is that the configuration is hidden >> and cannot be backed up so that it can be easily restored >> to a brand spanking new ma

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshots silently eating user quota

2008-03-20 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 03:12:01PM -0700, Walter Faleiro wrote: > Layman's method would be to try and total the space it lists against each > snapshot, but its not the case ZFS calculates. So I go on deleting the > snapshots, until the last one. Yes. This has been discussed before. There doesn't

[zfs-discuss] Snapshots silently eating user quota

2008-03-20 Thread Walter Faleiro
All, I assume this issue is pretty old given the time ZFS has been around. I have tried searching the list but could not get understand the structure of how ZFS actually takes snapshot space into account. I have a user walter on whom I try to do the following ZFS operations bash-3.00# zfs get quo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup-ing up ZFS configurations

2008-03-20 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Mark A. Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think the answer is that the configuration is hidden > and cannot be backed up so that it can be easily restored > to a brand spanking new machine with new disks. Hm, to which I can add that "zpool history" will

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup-ing up ZFS configurations

2008-03-20 Thread Mark A. Carlson
I think the answer is that the configuration is hidden and cannot be backed up so that it can be easily restored to a brand spanking new machine with new disks. -- mark Cyril Plisko wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Sachin Palav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Friends Can someone p

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup-ing up ZFS configurations

2008-03-20 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 7:52 PM, Sachin Palav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Friends > > Can someone please let me know how I can backup the ZFS configuration which > is stored on the operating system. The configuration of the ZFS pool is stored in the pool itself. That means that the pool i

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS I/O algorithms

2008-03-20 Thread Jonathan Edwards
On Mar 20, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Jonathan Edwards wrote: >> >> in that case .. try fixing the ARC size .. the dynamic resizing on >> the ARC >> can be less than optimal IMHO > > Is a 16GB ARC size not considered to be enough? ;-) > > I was only describin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disabling ZFS ACL

2008-03-20 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Sachin Palav wrote: > We are using this server as NFS & SAMBA server, we created ZFS file systems > considering it features. But un-fortunately we are experiencing problems with > every NFS client (almost all version os UNIX (AIX/Linux/HP). So I have now > set the server to use NFS version 2, as

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS I/O algorithms

2008-03-20 Thread Webmail
> Is a 16GB ARC size not considered to be enough? ;-) > > I was only describing the behavior that I observed. It seems to me > that when large files are written very quickly, that when the file > becomes bigger than the ARC, that what is contained in the ARC is > mostly stale and does not help m

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS I/O algorithms

2008-03-20 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Jonathan Edwards wrote: > > in that case .. try fixing the ARC size .. the dynamic resizing on the ARC > can be less than optimal IMHO Is a 16GB ARC size not considered to be enough? ;-) I was only describing the behavior that I observed. It seems to me that when large fil

[zfs-discuss] Backup-ing up ZFS configurations

2008-03-20 Thread Sachin Palav
Hello Friends Can someone please let me know how I can backup the ZFS configuration which is stored on the operating system. Thanks Sachin Palav This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disabling ZFS ACL

2008-03-20 Thread Sachin Palav
We are using this server as NFS & SAMBA server, we created ZFS file systems considering it features. But un-fortunately we are experiencing problems with every NFS client (almost all version os UNIX (AIX/Linux/HP). So I have now set the server to use NFS version 2, as most of the NFS clients wor

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance lower than expected

2008-03-20 Thread Tim
On 3/20/08, Kyle McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bart Smaalders wrote: > > On 4 commodity 500 GB SATA drives set up w/ RAID Z, my 2.6 Ghz dual > > core AMD box sustains > > 100+ MB/sec read or write it happily saturates a GB nic w/ multiple > > concurrent reads over > > Samba. > > > Th

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance lower than expected

2008-03-20 Thread Kyle McDonald
Bart Smaalders wrote: > On 4 commodity 500 GB SATA drives set up w/ RAID Z, my 2.6 Ghz dual > core AMD box sustains > 100+ MB/sec read or write it happily saturates a GB nic w/ multiple > concurrent reads over > Samba. > This leads me to a question I've been meaning to ask for a while. I'

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance lower than expected

2008-03-20 Thread Bart Smaalders
Bart Van Assche wrote: > Hello, > > I just made a setup in our lab which should make ZFS fly, but unfortunately > performance is significantly lower than expected: for large sequential data > transfers write speed is about 50 MB/s while I was expecting at least 150 > MB/s. > > Setup > - >

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance lower than expected

2008-03-20 Thread Richard Elling
Bart Van Assche wrote: > Hello, > > I just made a setup in our lab which should make ZFS fly, but unfortunately > performance is significantly lower than expected: for large sequential data > transfers write speed is about 50 MB/s while I was expecting at least 150 > MB/s. > > Setup > - > Th

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS panics solaris while switching a volume to read-only

2008-03-20 Thread Adrian Ulrich
Hi Eric, > PSARC 2007/567 zpool failmode property Thanks, that's exactly what i've been looking for :-) > Which went back into build 77 of nevada. Any chance to see this in Solaris-10 ? We are currently using VxFS on all LUNs ( > 15TB Maildir) and i'd like to give ZFS a try on a live system..

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS panics solaris while switching a volume to read-only

2008-03-20 Thread Eric Schrock
You want: PSARC 2007/567 zpool failmode property Which went back into build 77 of nevada. - Eric On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 04:44:43PM +0100, Adrian Ulrich wrote: > Hi, > > I just found out that ZFS triggers a kernel-panic while switching a mounted > volume > into read-only mode: > > The system

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance lower than expected

2008-03-20 Thread Bart Van Assche
> It looks like the ZFS server is communicating with only one SAN server at a > time. This leads to the following question: is there a setting in ZFS that enables concurrent writes to the ZFS storage targets instead of serializing all write actions ? Bart. This message posted from opensola

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance lower than expected

2008-03-20 Thread Bart Van Assche
- "Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you considered building one solaris system and using its iSCSI > target? When it comes to software iSCSI, you tend to get VERY > different results when moving from one platform to the next. In my > experience, Linux is notorious on iSCSI for working wel

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance lower than expected

2008-03-20 Thread Tim
On 3/20/08, Bart Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I just made a setup in our lab which should make ZFS fly, but > unfortunately performance is significantly lower than expected: for large > sequential data transfers write speed is about 50 MB/s while I was expecting > at least 1

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS I/O algorithms

2008-03-20 Thread Jonathan Edwards
On Mar 20, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Mario Goebbels wrote: > >>> Similarly, read block size does not make a >>> significant difference to the sequential read speed. >> >> Last time I did a simple bench using dd, supplying the record size as >> blocksize to it

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance lower than expected

2008-03-20 Thread Mertol Ozyoney
Hi Bart; Your setup is composed of a lot of components. I'd suggest the following. 1) check the system with one SAN server and see the performance 2) check the internal performance of one SAN server 3) TRY using Solaris instead of Linux as solaris iSCSI target could offer more performance 4) For

[zfs-discuss] ZFS panics solaris while switching a volume to read-only

2008-03-20 Thread Adrian Ulrich
Hi, I just found out that ZFS triggers a kernel-panic while switching a mounted volume into read-only mode: The system is attached to a Symmetrix, all zfs-io goes through Powerpath: I ran some io-intensive stuff on /tank/foo and switched the device into read-only mode at the same time (symrdf -

[zfs-discuss] ZFS performance lower than expected

2008-03-20 Thread Bart Van Assche
Hello, I just made a setup in our lab which should make ZFS fly, but unfortunately performance is significantly lower than expected: for large sequential data transfers write speed is about 50 MB/s while I was expecting at least 150 MB/s. Setup - The setup consists of five servers in total:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS I/O algorithms

2008-03-20 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008, Mario Goebbels wrote: >> Similarly, read block size does not make a >> significant difference to the sequential read speed. > > Last time I did a simple bench using dd, supplying the record size as > blocksize to it instead of no blocksize parameter bumped the mirror pool > sp

Re: [zfs-discuss] aclinherit property changes fast track

2008-03-20 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Marc Bevand wrote: > Mark Shellenbaum Sun.COM> writes: >> # ls -V a >> -rw-r--r--+ 1 root root 0 Mar 19 13:04 a >> owner@:--:--I:allow >> group@:--:--I:allow >> everyone@:--:--I:allow > > The

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS I/O algorithms

2008-03-20 Thread Mario Goebbels
> Similarly, read block size does not make a > significant difference to the sequential read speed. Last time I did a simple bench using dd, supplying the record size as blocksize to it instead of no blocksize parameter bumped the mirror pool speed from 90MB/s to 130MB/s. -mg signature.asc De

[zfs-discuss] zfs assertion failure - kernel panic

2008-03-20 Thread Ram
hi -- So it seems that my solaris10 u2 machine had hit the "assertion failure " bug described in #233602 -- This machine was running happily for over an year without any issues related to importing of zpools ..and it only hit this recently.. which resulted in an endless loop of kernel panic

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS I/O algorithms

2008-03-20 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Bob, Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 11:23:58 PM, you wrote: BF> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Bill Moloney wrote: >> When application IO sizes get small, the overhead in ZFS goes >> up dramatically. BF> Thanks for the feedback. However, from what I have observed, it is BF> not a full story at all.

Re: [zfs-discuss] cifs permissions

2008-03-20 Thread Ross
Are you also in the staff group by any chance? Because the only line that looks like it would cause you problems is this one: group:staff:rwxp--:---:deny This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@