[zfs-discuss] LZO versus LZJB

2009-08-14 Thread Denis Ahrens
Hi Some developers here said a long time ago that someone should show the code for LZO compression support for ZFS before talking about the next step. I made that code with a friend and we also made a little benchmark to give a first impression: http://denisy.dyndns.org/lzo_vs_lzjb/ I hope we

Re: [zfs-discuss] LZO versus LZJB

2009-08-14 Thread Thomas Burgess
Great read. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Denis Ahrens no-re...@opensolaris.orgwrote: Hi Some developers here said a long time ago that someone should show the code for LZO compression support for ZFS before talking about the next step. I made that code with a friend and we also made a

Re: [zfs-discuss] LZO versus LZJB

2009-08-14 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Denis Ahrensno-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: Some developers here said a long time ago that someone should show the code for LZO compression support for ZFS before talking about the next step. Isn't the main problem license, LZO being GPL, while zfs CDDL? --

Re: [zfs-discuss] Books on File Systems and File System Programming

2009-08-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Louis-Frédéric Feuillette jeb...@gmail.com wrote: I saw this question on another mailing list, and I too would like to know. And I have a couple questions of my own. == Paraphrased from other list == Does anyone have any recommendations for books on File Systems and/or File Systems

[zfs-discuss] ZFS nfs performance on ESX4i

2009-08-14 Thread Ashley Avileli
I have setup a pool called vmstorage and mounted it as nfs storage in esx4i. The pool in freenas contains 4 sata2 disks in raidz. I have 6 vms; 5 linux and 1 windows and performance is terrible. Any suggestion on improving the performance of the current setup. I have added the following

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS tale of woe and fail

2009-08-14 Thread Tom Bird
Victor Latushkin wrote: This issue (and previous one reported by Tom) has got some publicity recently - see here http://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof13/Bird-Redux.pdf So i feel like i need to provide a little bit more information about the outcome (sorry that it is delayed and not as full as

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS tale of woe and fail

2009-08-14 Thread David Magda
On Fri, August 14, 2009 09:02, Tom Bird wrote: I can't remember how many errors the check found, however all the data copied off successfully, as far as we know. I would think that you'd be fairly confident of the integrity of the data since everything would be checksummed. Joyent also had a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS tale of woe and fail

2009-08-14 Thread Ross
Yup, that one was down to a known (and fixed) bug though, so it isn't the normal story of ZFS problems. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] LZO versus LZJB

2009-08-14 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
Thanks for the informative analysis! Just wondering - are there better candidates out there than even LZO for this purpose? Alex. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:05 AM, Denis Ahrensno-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: Hi Some developers here said a long time ago that someone should show the code for

Re: [zfs-discuss] Books on File Systems and File System Programming

2009-08-14 Thread Louis-Frédéric Feuillette
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 12:34 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Louis-Frédéric Feuillette jeb...@gmail.com wrote: I saw this question on another mailing list, and I too would like to know. And I have a couple questions of my own. == Paraphrased from other list == Does anyone have any

Re: [zfs-discuss] LZO versus LZJB

2009-08-14 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
Just to answer my own question - this one might be interesting: http://www.quicklz.com/ Alex. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Alex Lam S.L.alexla...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the informative analysis! Just wondering - are there better candidates out there than even LZO for this purpose?

[zfs-discuss] order bug, legacy mount and nfs sharing

2009-08-14 Thread kurosan
Hi, I've encountered this bug: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=108316tstart=30 and to obviate to the problem I'm using legacy mounts. Now the system boot without problems, but nfs server doesn't start because couldn't find any share. So I've disabled nfs with zfs set

Re: [zfs-discuss] Books on File Systems and File System Programming

2009-08-14 Thread Louis-Frédéric Feuillette
I did see this, Thanks. On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 10:51 -0400, Christine Tran wrote: 2009/8/14 Louis-Frédéric Feuillette jeb...@gmail.com I am primarily interested in the theory of how to write a filesystem. The kernel interface comes later when I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Books on File Systems and File System Programming

2009-08-14 Thread Peter Schow
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 05:02:46PM -0600, Louis-Fr?d?ric Feuillette wrote: I saw this question on another mailing list, and I too would like to know. And I have a couple questions of my own. == Paraphrased from other list == Does anyone have any recommendations for books on File Systems

Re: [zfs-discuss] LZO versus LZJB

2009-08-14 Thread Jeb Campbell
The only problem I see, is data set size. Let me explain (and please correct if I'm wrong). ZFS basically compresses 2 things -- metadata and data. And data is at most 128k chunk. Each chunk is individually compressed, not the whole file. This should affect dictionary size for the lzo

[zfs-discuss] What's eating my disk space? Missing snapshots?

2009-08-14 Thread Matthew Stevenson
Please can someone take a look at the attached file which shows the output on my machine of zfs list -r -t filesystem,snapshot -o space rpool/export/home/matt The USEDDS figure of ~2GB is what I would expect, and is the same figure reported by the Disk Usage Analyzer. Where is the remaining

[zfs-discuss] Crashed zpool prevents login

2009-08-14 Thread Morten Green Hermansen
Hello! I have a clean installation of Solaris Express Community Edition Build 119. I created a zpool consisting of a mirror of two iSCSI disks. The new pool is empty - no files or filesystems yet. After some time I might have lost the connection to the iSCSI devices resulting in a crashed

Re: [zfs-discuss] What's eating my disk space? Missing snapshots?

2009-08-14 Thread Richard Elling
On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:19 AM, Matthew Stevenson wrote: Please can someone take a look at the attached file which shows the output on my machine of zfs list -r -t filesystem,snapshot -o space rpool/export/home/matt The USEDDS figure of ~2GB is what I would expect, and is the same figure

[zfs-discuss] SMBS share disappears daily

2009-08-14 Thread Alex Lam S.L.
Hi there, I have a raid-z(1) data pool with smb=name=data (4x750GB local SATA II), which I open up for my Windows machines to dump files into. Trouble is, the SMB share would disappear from the network at least once a day, and when it happens, I have to reboot OpenSolaris (2009.06) in order to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS nfs performance on ESX4i

2009-08-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have setup a pool called vmstorage and mounted it as nfs storage in esx4i. The pool in freenas contains 4 sata2 disks in raidz. I have 6 vms; 5 linux and 1 windows and performance is terrible. Any suggestion on improving the performance of the current setup. I have added the following

Re: [zfs-discuss] SMBS share disappears daily

2009-08-14 Thread Will Murnane
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 13:35, Alex Lam S.L.alexla...@gmail.com wrote: Hi there, I have a raid-z(1) data pool with smb=name=data (4x750GB local SATA II), which I open up for my Windows machines to dump files into. Trouble is, the SMB share would disappear from the network at least once a

Re: [zfs-discuss] LZO versus LZJB

2009-08-14 Thread Richard Elling
On Aug 14, 2009, at 7:15 AM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote: Thanks for the informative analysis! Just wondering - are there better candidates out there than even LZO for this purpose? tamp is perhaps another interesting candidate. But Tim is in a better position to say where it is heading.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Books on File Systems and File System Programming

2009-08-14 Thread Toby Thain
On 14-Aug-09, at 11:14 AM, Peter Schow wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 05:02:46PM -0600, Louis-Fr?d?ric Feuillette wrote: I saw this question on another mailing list, and I too would like to know. And I have a couple questions of my own. == Paraphrased from other list == Does anyone have any

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS nfs performance on ESX4i

2009-08-14 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 14, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I have setup a pool called vmstorage and mounted it as nfs storage in esx4i. The pool in freenas contains 4 sata2 disks in raidz. I have 6 vms; 5 linux and 1 windows and performance is terrible. Any