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

2008-05-09 Thread Bart Van Assche
The disks in the SAN servers were indeed striped together with Linux LVM and exported as a single volume to ZFS. That is really going to hurt. In general, you're much better off giving ZFS access to all the individual LUNs. The intermediate LVM layer kills the concurrency that's native

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs! mirror and break

2008-05-09 Thread Richard Elling
Mike DeMarco wrote: Mike DeMarco wrote: I currently have a zpool with two 8Gbyte disks in it. I need to replace them with a single 56Gbyte disk. with veritas I would just add the disk in as a mirror and break off the other plex then destroy it. I see no way

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sanity check -- x4500 storage server for enterprise file service

2008-05-09 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Richard Elling wrote: N.B. anyone can purchase a Production Subscription for OpenSolaris which would get both support and the in-kernel CIFS server. http://www.sun.com/service/opensolaris/index.jsp Wow. That's new, and very intriguing. Any idea on the potential timeline

[zfs-discuss] Weird performance issue with ZFS with lots of simultaneous reads

2008-05-09 Thread Chris Siebenmann
I have a ZFS-based NFS server (Solaris 10 U4 on x86) where I am seeing a weird performance degradation as the number of simultaneous sequential reads increases. Setup: NFS client - Solaris NFS server - iSCSI target machine There are 12 physical disks on the iSCSI target machine. Each

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sanity check -- x4500 storage server for enterprise file service

2008-05-09 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: It seems like kind of a waste to allocate 1TB to the operating system, would there be any issue in taking a slice of those boot disks and creating a zfs mirror with them to add to the pool? You don't want to go there. Keep in mind that there is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sanity check -- x4500 storage server for enterprise file service

2008-05-09 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Thu, 8 May 2008, Peter Tribble wrote: As a regular fileserver, yes - random reads of small files on raidz isn't too hot... There that would pretty much be our usage scenario; home directories and group project directories. I just disable NCQ and have done with it. Doesn't that result in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Weird performance issue with ZFS with lots of simultaneous reads

2008-05-09 Thread Robin Guo
Hi, Chris, Good topic, I'd like to see comments from expert as well. Firstly, I think it has some punishment from NFS, ZFS/NFS has performance lost, and the L2ARC cache feature is the way to solve it, so far. (Has in opensolaris, but not in s10u4 yet, will target in s10u6 release).

[zfs-discuss] Where is zfs attributes kept?

2008-05-09 Thread Christine Tran
Hi, If I delegate a dataset to a zone, and inside the zone, the zoneadmin set the attribute of that dataset, where is that data kept? More to the point, at what level is that data kept? In the zone? Or on the pool, with the zone having privilege to modify that info at the pool? I'm looking

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sanity check -- x4500 storage server forenterprise file service

2008-05-09 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Thu, 8 May 2008, eric kustarz wrote: Matt just sent out a code review for this today: 6343667 scrub/resilver has to start over when a snapshot is taken http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6343667 Wow, this bug was originally opened 30-OCT-2005... I guess it was really difficult

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS cli for REMOTE Administration

2008-05-09 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Thu, 8 May 2008, Mark Shellenbaum wrote: we already have the ability to allow users to create/destroy snapshots over NFS. Look at the ZFS delegated administration model. If all you want is snapshot creation/destruction then you will need to grant snapshot,mount,destroy permissions.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS cli for REMOTE Administration

2008-05-09 Thread Mark Shellenbaum
Paul B. Henson wrote: On Thu, 8 May 2008, Mark Shellenbaum wrote: we already have the ability to allow users to create/destroy snapshots over NFS. Look at the ZFS delegated administration model. If all you want is snapshot creation/destruction then you will need to grant