Re: [zfs-discuss] Injection of ZFS snapshots into existing data, and replacement of older snapshots with zfs recv without truncating newer ones

2012-01-13 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Jim Klimov Perhaps I need to specify some usecases more clearly: Actually, I'm not sure you do need to specify usecases more clearly - Because the idea is obviously awesome. The main

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs defragmentation via resilvering?

2012-01-13 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: Suppose you have a 1G file open, and a snapshot of this file is on disk from a previous point in time. for ( i=0 ; i1trillion ; i++ ) { seek(random integer in range[0 to 1G]); write(4k); } Something like this would quickly try to

[zfs-discuss] L2ARC, block based or file based?

2012-01-13 Thread Matt Banks
I'm sorry to be asking such a basic question that would seem to be easily found on Google, but after 30 minutes of googling and looking through this lists' archives, I haven't found a definitive answer. Is the L2ARC caching scheme based on files or blocks? The reason I ask: We have several

Re: [zfs-discuss] L2ARC, block based or file based?

2012-01-13 Thread Marion Hakanson
mattba...@gmail.com said: We're looking at buying some additional SSD's for L2ARC (as well as additional RAM to support the increased L2ARC size) and I'm wondering if we NEED to plan for them to be large enough to hold the entire file or if ZFS can cache the most heavily used parts of a single