Re: [zfs-discuss] Data size grew.. with compression on

2009-04-13 Thread Daniel Rock
Will Murnane schrieb: Perhaps ZFS could do some very simplistic de-dup here: it has the B-tree entry for the file in question when it goes to overwrite a piece of it, so it could calculate the checksum of the new block and see if it matches the checksum for the block it is overwriting. This is a

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] Supermicro SAS/SATA controllers?

2009-04-13 Thread Will Murnane
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 01:02, Nicholas Lee wrote: >> There's also the ACARD device: >> >> acard ANS-9010B                 $250 >>  plus 8GB RAM                    $86 >>  plus 16GB CF                    $44 >> >> It's also got a battery but can dump/restore the RAM to a CF card. >> It's physicall

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data size grew.. with compression on

2009-04-13 Thread Will Murnane
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 07:03, Robert Milkowski wrote: > Hello Daniel, > > Thursday, April 9, 2009, 3:35:07 PM, you wrote: > > DR> Jonathan schrieb: >>> OpenSolaris Forums wrote: if you have a snapshot of your files and rsync the same files again, you need to use "--inplace" rsync option

Re: [zfs-discuss] [storage-discuss] Supermicro SAS/SATA controllers?

2009-04-13 Thread Miles Nordin
> "nl" == Nicholas Lee writes: nl> zfs handles so much of what once would have been done in nl> hardware and by drivers. While this is good, it is leaving nl> this huge grey area where it is hard for those of us on the nl> front line well that's not what I meant though. The

[zfs-discuss] ZFS volume -- special circumstances and usage in non-global zones

2009-04-13 Thread Ravi Kota
Hi, The zfs(1M) man page indicates that a ZFS volume should only be used under special circumstances as below. /*volume** */ /A logical volume exported as a raw or block device. This type of

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS volume -- special circumstances and usage in non-global zones

2009-04-13 Thread Cindy . Swearingen
Hi Ravi, I think a previous bug prevented the use of volumes in non-global zones and the man page was not updated. This is a bug in the man page. I will fix this. I agree that this text here: http://docsview.sfbay.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/ftyxh?a=view A ZFS volume is a dataset that repres

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data size grew.. with compression on

2009-04-13 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Robert Milkowski wrote: That's because without --inplace rsync will copy a file first, then apply changes to it and if successful will remove the old file. So if the old file is still in snapshot you will end-up with a new copy of the file and the old copy being kept in a po

[zfs-discuss] ZFS volume -- special circumstances and usage in non-global zones

2009-04-13 Thread Ravi Kota
Hi, The zfs(1M) man page indicates that a ZFS volume should only be used under special circumstances as below. /*volume** */ /A logical volume exported as a raw or block device. This type of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any news on ZFS bug 6535172?

2009-04-13 Thread Sanjeev
Gary, Thanks ! I was suspecting bug#6596237. But, with the current usage that does not seem likely. In any case can you collect the output of : /usr/sbin/lockstat -HcwP -n 5 -D 20 -s 40 sleep 5 This would tell us if there are any lock contentions. And if the system is suffering from 6

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any news on ZFS bug 6535172?

2009-04-13 Thread Gary Mills
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 09:08:09AM +0530, Sanjeev wrote: > > How full is the pool ? Only 50%, but it started with two 500-gig LUNs initially. We added two more when it got up to 300 gigabytes. # zpool list NAMESIZE USED AVAILCAP HEALTH ALTROOT space 1.99T 1.02T 992G5

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data size grew.. with compression on

2009-04-13 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Daniel, Thursday, April 9, 2009, 3:35:07 PM, you wrote: DR> Jonathan schrieb: >> OpenSolaris Forums wrote: >>> if you have a snapshot of your files and rsync the same files again, >>> you need to use "--inplace" rsync option , otherwise completely new >>> blocks will be allocated for the ne