Re: [zfs-discuss] partioned cache devices

2013-03-19 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 03/19/13 20:27, Jim Klimov wrote: I disagree; at least, I've always thought differently: the "d" device is the whole disk denomination, with a unique number for a particular controller link ("c+t"). The disk has some partitioning table, MBR or GPT/EFI. In these tables, partition "p0" stands f

Re: [zfs-discuss] partioned cache devices

2013-03-19 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Andrew Werchowiecki wrote: Total disk size is 9345 cylinders Cylinder size is 12544 (512 byte) blocks Cylinders Partition StatusType Start End Length% = ==

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Un-dedup for unique blocks

2013-01-22 Thread Andrew Gabriel
ilisation and performance for a ZFS COMSTAR target. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] any more efficient way to transfer snapshot between two hosts than ssh tunnel?

2012-12-14 Thread Andrew Gabriel
for large transfers on 10GbE are: 280MB/smbuffer 220MB/srsh 180MB/sHPN-ssh unencrypted 60MB/s standard ssh The tradeoff mbuffer is a little more complicated to script; rsh is, well, you know; and hpn-ssh requires rebuilding ssh and (probably) maintaining a second copy of it.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS array on marvell88sx in Solaris 11.1

2012-12-13 Thread Andrew Gabriel
are portable to a different controller), are you able/willing to swap it for one that Solaris is known to support well? -------- -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remove disk

2012-12-02 Thread Andrew Gabriel
or if you don't care about existing snapshots, use Shadow Migration to move the data across. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] portable zfs send streams (preview webrev)

2012-10-18 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Arne Jansen wrote: We have finished a beta version of the feature. What does FITS stand for? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Making ZIL faster

2012-10-04 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Schweiss, Chip How can I determine for sure that my ZIL is my bottleneck? If it is the bottleneck, is it possible to keep adding m

Re: [zfs-discuss] all in one server

2012-09-18 Thread Andrew Gabriel
-r export/home | wc -l 1951 $ echo 1951 / 365 | bc -l 5.34520547945205479452 $ So you're slightly ahead of my 5.3 years of daily snapshots:-) -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Remedies for suboptimal mmap performance on zfs

2012-05-28 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 05/28/12 20:06, Iwan Aucamp wrote: I'm getting sub-optimal performance with an mmap based database (mongodb) which is running on zfs of Solaris 10u9. System is Sun-Fire X4270-M2 with 2xX5680 and 72GB (6 * 8GB + 6 * 4GB) ram (installed so it runs at 1333MHz) and 2 * 300GB 15K RPM disks -

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs_arc_max values

2012-05-17 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 05/17/12 15:03, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2012, Paul Kraus wrote: Why are you trying to tune the ARC as _low_ as possible? In my experience the ARC gives up memory readily for other uses. The only place I _had_ to tune the ARC in production was a couple systems running an app

Re: [zfs-discuss] test for holes in a file?

2012-03-26 Thread Andrew Gabriel
I just played and knocked this up (note the stunning lack of comments, missing optarg processing, etc)... Give it a list of files to check... #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 #include #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { int i; for (i = 1; i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Any recommendations on Perc H700 controller on Dell Rx10 ?

2012-03-10 Thread Andrew Gabriel
relatively new, and the controllers may not have been designed with SSDs in mind. That's likely to be somewhat different nowadays, but I don't have any data to show that either way. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] send only difference between snapshots

2012-02-14 Thread Andrew Gabriel
aster, send only the difference between the current and recent snapshots on the backup and then deploy it on backup. Any ideas how this can be done? It's called an incremental - it's part of the zfs send command line options. -- Andrew Gabriel

Re: [zfs-discuss] Does raidzN actually protect against bitrot? If yes - how?

2012-01-15 Thread Andrew Gabriel
;s nothing inbetween. Actually, there are a number of disk firmware and cache faults inbetween, which zfs has picked up over the years. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Stress test zfs

2012-01-05 Thread Andrew Gabriel
10,000 synchronous write IOPs, but the underlying devices are only performing about 1/10th of that, due to ZFS coalescing multiple outstanding writes. Sorry, I'm not familiar with what type of load bonnie generates. -- Andrew Gabriel | Solaris Systems Architect Email: andrew.gabr...@oracle

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I create a mirror for a root rpool?

2011-12-16 Thread Andrew Gabriel
, which is just silly to fight with anyway. Gregg -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] slow zfs send/recv speed

2011-11-15 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 11/15/11 23:40, Tim Cook wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Andrew Gabriel mailto:andrew.gabr...@oracle.com>> wrote: On 11/15/11 23:05, Anatoly wrote: Good day, The speed of send/recv is around 30-60 MBytes/s for initial send and 17-25 MBytes

Re: [zfs-discuss] slow zfs send/recv speed

2011-11-15 Thread Andrew Gabriel
sec, so it's pretty much limited by the ethernet. Since you have provided none of the diagnostic data you collected, it's difficult to guess what the limiting factor is for you. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discus

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool scrub bad block list

2011-11-08 Thread Andrew Gabriel
s of disk (SSD), block numbers are moved around to achieve wear leveling, so blacklistinng a block number won't stop you reusing that real block. -- Andrew Gabriel (from mobile) --- Original message --- From: Edward Ned Harvey To: didier.reb...@u-bourgogne.fr, zfs-discuss@opensolari

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper (X4500), and CF SSD for L2ARC = ?

2011-10-14 Thread Andrew Gabriel
a ufs root disk, but any attempt to put a serious load on it, and it corrupted data all over the place. So if you're going to try one, make sure you hammer it very hard in a test environment before you commit anything important to it. -- Andrew Gabriel

Re: [zfs-discuss] solaris 10u8 hangs with message Disconnected command timeout for Target 0

2011-08-15 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Block: 1380679072Error Block: 1380679072 Aug 16 13:14:16 nas-hz-02 scsi: Vendor: DELL Serial Number: Aug 16 13:14:16 nas-hz-02 scsi: Sense Key: Unit Attention Aug 16 13:14:16 nas-hz-02 scsi: ASC: 0x29 (device internal re

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sudden drop in disk performance - WD20EURS & 4k sectors to blame?

2011-08-15 Thread Andrew Gabriel
size (although that alone doesn't necessarily tell you much - a dtrace quantize aggregation would be better). Also check service times on the disks (iostat) to see if there's one which is significantly worse and might be going bad. -- Andrew Gabriel ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk IDs and DD

2011-08-10 Thread Andrew Gabriel
none of my 'data' disks have been 'configured' yet. I wanted to ID them before adding them to pools. Use p0 on x86 (whole disk, without regard to any partitioning). Any other s or p device node may or may not be there, depending on what partitions/slices are on

Re: [zfs-discuss] matching zpool versions to development builds

2011-08-08 Thread Andrew Gabriel
e end of the URL). It conks out at version 31 though. I have systems back to build 125, so I tend to always force zpool version 19 for that (and that automatically limits zfs version to 4). There's also some info about some builds on the zfs wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Large scale performance query

2011-08-08 Thread Andrew Gabriel
e to be able to find a non corrupt version of the data. When you have a new hardware setup, I would perform scrubs more frequently as a further check that the hardware doesn't have any systemic problems, until you have gained confidence in it.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding mirrors to an existing zfs-pool

2011-07-26 Thread Andrew Gabriel
? What's the RAID layout of your pool "zpool status"? -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive and ashift

2011-07-26 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Does anyone know if it's OK to do zfs send/receive between zpools with different ashift values? -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Mount Options

2011-07-25 Thread Andrew Gabriel
ssion and/or if you wish to reserve a minimum space... zfs set reservation=50g logs/oracle zfs set reservation=100g logs/session Do I have to use the legacy mount options? You don't have to. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list z

Re: [zfs-discuss] How create a FAT filesystem on a zvol?

2011-07-12 Thread Andrew Gabriel
0 bytes in 0 directories. 0 bytes in 0 files. 10143232 bytes free. 512 bytes per allocation unit. 19811 total allocation units. 19811 available allocation units. andrew@opensolaris:~# mount -F pcfs /dev/zvol/dsk/rpool/vol1 /mnt andrew@opensolaris:~# -- Andrew Gabriel ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] 512b vs 4K sectors

2011-07-04 Thread Andrew Gabriel
gate Barracuda XT 2Tb disks (which are a bit more Enterprise than the list above), just plugged them in, and so far they're OK. Not had them long enough to report on longevity. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolar

Re: [zfs-discuss] 700GB gone?

2011-06-30 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 06/30/11 08:50 PM, Orvar Korvar wrote: I have a 1.5TB disk that has several partitions. One of them is 900GB. Now I can only see 300GB. Where is the rest? Is there a command I can do to reach the rest of the data? Will scrub help? Not much to go on - no one can answer this. How did you g

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption accelerator card recommendations.

2011-06-28 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 06/27/11 11:32 PM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On 06/27/11 15:24, David Magda wrote: Given the amount of transistors that are available nowadays I think it'd be simpler to just create a series of SIMD instructions right in/on general CPUs, and skip the whole co-processor angle. see: http://en.wi

Re: [zfs-discuss] write cache partial-disk pools (was Server with 4 drives, how to configure ZFS?)

2011-06-20 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Richard Elling wrote: On Jun 19, 2011, at 6:04 AM, Andrew Gabriel wrote: Richard Elling wrote: Actually, all of the data I've gathered recently shows that the number of IOPS does not significantly increase for HDDs running random workloads. However the response time does :-( My

Re: [zfs-discuss] write cache partial-disk pools (was Server with 4 drives, how to configure ZFS?)

2011-06-19 Thread Andrew Gabriel
taking into account priority, such as if the I/O is a synchronous or asynchronous, and age of existing queue entries). I had much fun playing with this at the time. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://

Re: [zfs-discuss] compare snapshot to current zfs fs

2011-06-04 Thread Andrew Gabriel
diff [ | ] -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Extremely slow zpool scrub performance

2011-05-14 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 05/14/11 01:08 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Donald Stahl Running a zpool scrub on our production pool is showing a scrub rate of about 400K/s. (When this pool was first set up we saw rates in

Re: [zfs-discuss] Summary: Dedup and L2ARC memory requirements

2011-05-08 Thread Andrew Gabriel
is synchronous. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Faster copy from UFS to ZFS

2011-05-03 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Certainly, fastfs (a similar although more dangerous option for ufs) makes ufs to ufs copying significantly faster. *ufsrestore works fine on ZFS filesystems (although I haven't tried it with any POSIX ACLs on the original ufs filesystem, which would probably simply get l

Re: [zfs-discuss] No write coalescing after upgrade to Solaris 11 Express

2011-04-27 Thread Andrew Gabriel
f oSol 134? What does "zfs get sync" report? -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] SIL3114 and sparc solaris 10

2011-02-23 Thread Andrew Gabriel
ss, and I think you'll need a Windows system to actually flash the BIOS. You might want to do a google search on "3114 data corruption" too, although it never hit me back when I used the cards. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing li

Re: [zfs-discuss] SIL3114 and sparc solaris 10

2011-02-23 Thread Andrew Gabriel
drivers had been developed. I would suggest looking for something more modern. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and spindle speed (7.2k / 10k / 15k)

2011-02-05 Thread Andrew Gabriel
e scanned all the surfaces on startup to build up an internal table of the relative misalignment of tracks across the surfaces, but this rapidly became unviable as drive capacity increased and this scan would take an unreasonable length of time. It may be that modern drives learn this as they

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and TRIM

2011-01-29 Thread Andrew Gabriel
ely provisioned, in order to deallocate blocks in the LUN which have previously been allocated, but whose contents have since been invalidated. In this case, both ZFS and whatever is providing the storage LUN would need to support TRIM. Out of interest, what other filesystems out there toda

Re: [zfs-discuss] show hdd life time ?

2011-01-23 Thread Andrew Gabriel
dicator of impending failure, such as the various error and retry counts. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] incorrect vdev added to pool

2011-01-18 Thread Andrew Gabriel
On 01/15/11 11:32 PM, Gal Buki wrote: Hi I have a pool with a raidz2 vdev. Today I accidentally added a single drive to the pool. I now have a pool that partially has no redundancy as this vdev is a single drive. Is there a way to remove the vdev Not at the moment, as far as I know. and

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to quiesce and unquiesc zfs and zpool for array/hardware snapshots ?

2010-11-15 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Sridhar, You have switched to a new disruptive filesystem technology, and it has to be disruptive in order to break out of all the issues older filesystems have, and give you all the new and wonderful features. However, you are still trying to use old filesystem techniques with it, which is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Changing GUID

2010-11-15 Thread Andrew Gabriel
earlier opensolaris versions, but it no longer works). If you have a support contract, raise a call and asked to be added to RFE 6744320. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] how to quiesce and unquiesc zfs and zpool for array/hardware snapshots ?

2010-11-15 Thread Andrew Gabriel
em) immediately (so you can repeat the hardware snapshot again if it fails), maybe you will be lucky. The right way to do this with zfs is to send/recv the datasets to a fresh zpool, or (S10 Update 9) to create an extra zpool mirror and then split it off with zpool split. --

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do you use >1 partition on x86?

2010-10-25 Thread Andrew Gabriel
3017015200 50 format Searching for disks...done AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: 0. c7t0d0 /p...@0,0/pci1028,2...@1f,2/d...@0,0 Thanks for any idea. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris

Re: [zfs-discuss] TLER and ZFS

2010-10-06 Thread Andrew Gabriel
itch to disable pseudo 512b access so you can use the 4k native. The industry as a whole will transition to 4k sectorsize over next few years, but these first 4k sectorsize HDs are rather less useful with 4k sectorsize-aware OS's. Let's hope other manufacturers get this right in their first

Re: [zfs-discuss] TLER and ZFS

2010-10-05 Thread Andrew Gabriel
del is no longer available now. I'm going to have to swap out for bigger disks in the not too distant future. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] fs root inode number?

2010-09-26 Thread Andrew Gabriel
S is 3 rather than 2? If you look at zfs_create_fs(), you will see the first 3 items created are: Create zap object used for SA attribute registration Create a delete queue. Create root znode. Hence, inode 3. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-disc

Re: [zfs-discuss] Adding a higher level partition to ZFS pool

2010-09-24 Thread Andrew Gabriel
ve you poor performance if you are accessing both at the same time, as you are forcing head seeking between them. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Failed zfs send "invalid backup stream".............

2010-09-12 Thread Andrew Gabriel
if the target is a new hard drive can I use this zfs send al...@3 > /dev/c10t0d0 ? That command doesn't make much sense for the purpose of doing anything useful. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discu

Re: [zfs-discuss] SCSI write retry errors on ZIL SSD drives...

2010-08-24 Thread Andrew Gabriel
e error you included isn't a timeout. The SSD's themselves are all Intel X-25E's (32GB) with firmware 8860 and the LSI 1068 is a SAS1068E B3 with firmware 011c0200 (1.28.02.00). I'm not intimately familiar with the firmware versions, but if you're having problems, making s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris startup script location

2010-08-18 Thread andrew . gabriel
What you say is true only on the system itself. On an NFS client system, 30 seconds of lost data in the middle of a file (as per my earlier example) is a corrupt file. -original message- Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris startup script location From: Edward Ned Harvey Date: 18/08/2010 17:17 >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris startup script location

2010-08-18 Thread Andrew Gabriel
ing a file sequentially, you will likely find an area of the file is corrupt because the data was lost. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris startup script location

2010-08-18 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Andrew Gabriel wrote: Alxen4 wrote: Is there any way run start-up script before non-root pool is mounted ? For example I'm trying to use ramdisk as ZIL device (ramdiskadm ) So I need to create ramdisk before actual pool is mounted otherwise it complains that log device is missing :)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris startup script location

2010-08-18 Thread Andrew Gabriel
way to do this is to "zfs set sync=disabled ..." on relevant filesystems. I can't recall which build introduced this, but prior to that, you can set zfs://zil_disable=1 in /etc/system but that applies to all pools/filesystems. -- Andrew Gabriel

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS automatic rollback and data rescue.

2010-08-14 Thread Andrew Gabriel
undancy on flaky storage is not a good place to be. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS automatic rollback and data rescue.

2010-08-14 Thread Andrew Gabriel
o see output of: zfs list -t all -r zpool/filesystem There is a trouble - snapshot is too old, and ,consequently, there is a questions -- Can I browse pre-rollbacked corrupted branch of FS ? And, if I can, how ? -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Global Spare for 2 pools

2010-08-10 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Tony MacDoodle wrote: I have 2 ZFS pools all using the same drive type and size. The question is can I have 1 global hot spare for both of those pools? Yes. A hot spare disk can be added to more than one pool at the same time. -- Andrew Gabriel

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID Z stripes

2010-08-10 Thread Andrew Gabriel
ped out drives, this works well, and avoids ending up with sprawling lower capacity drives as your pool grows in size. This is what I do at home. The freed-up drives get used in other systems and for off-site backups. Over the last 4 years, I've upgraded from 1/4TB, to 1/2TB, and now on 1TB dri

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS SCRUB

2010-08-09 Thread Andrew Gabriel
e you do a planned reduction of the pool redundancy (e.g. if you're going to detach a mirror side in order to attach a larger disk), most particularly if you are reducing the redundancy to nothing. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Maximum zfs send/receive throughput

2010-08-06 Thread Andrew Gabriel
use for one which is stopped. However, you haven't given anything like enough detail here of your situation and what's happening for me to make any worthwhile guesses. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolari

[zfs-discuss] zvol recordsize for backing a zpool over iSCSI

2010-07-30 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Just wondering if anyone has experimented with working out the best zvol recordsize for a zvol which is backing a zpool over iSCSI? -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS performance?

2010-07-23 Thread Andrew Gabriel
ential implications before embarking on this route. (As I said before, the zpool itself is not at any additional risk of corruption, it's just that you might find the zfs filesystems with sync=disabled appear to have been rewound by up to 30 seconds.) If you're unsure, then adding SSD no

Re: [zfs-discuss] NFS performance?

2010-07-23 Thread Andrew Gabriel
dea for some other applications though (although Linux ran this way for many years, seemingly without many complaints). Note that there's no increased risk of the zpool going bad - it's just that after the reboot, filesystems with sync=disabled will look like they were rewo

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send to remote any ideas for a faster way than ssh?

2010-07-19 Thread Andrew Gabriel
tcat. I haven't figured out where to get netcat nor the syntax for using it yet. I used a buffering program of my own, but I presume mbuffer would work too. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send to remote any ideas for a faster way than ssh?

2010-07-19 Thread Andrew Gabriel
between the machines due to the CPU limiting on the scp and gunzip processes. Also, if you have multiple datasets to send, might be worth seeing if sending them in parallel helps. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list z

Re: [zfs-discuss] 1tb SATA drives

2010-07-16 Thread Andrew Gabriel
takes nearly 19 hours now, and hammers the heads quite hard. I keep meaning to reduce the scrub frequency now it's getting to take so long, but haven't got around to it. What I really want is pause/resume scrub, and the ability to trigger the pause/resume from the screensaver (or

Re: [zfs-discuss] Recommended RAM for ZFS on various platforms

2010-07-16 Thread Andrew Gabriel
I find my home data growth is slightly less than the rate of disk capacity increase, so every 18 months or so, I simply swap out the disks for higher capacity ones. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-12 Thread Andrew Gabriel
FS, amongst other Solaris features. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ls says: /tank/ws/fubar: Operation not applicable

2010-06-22 Thread Andrew Gabriel
evious installs). It's an amd64 box. Both OS versions show the same problem. Do I need to run a scrub? (will take days...) Other ideas? It might be interesting to run it under truss, to see which syscall is returning that error. -- Andrew Gabriel ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is it possible to disable MPxIO during OpenSolaris installation?

2010-06-02 Thread Andrew Gabriel
for disks. (Actually, vanity naming for disks should probably be brought out into a separate RFE.) -- Andrew Gabriel | Solaris Systems Architect Email: andrew.gabr...@oracle.com Mobile: +44 7720 598213 Oracle Pre-Sales Guillemont Park | Minley Road | Camberley | GU17 9QG | United Kingdom ORACLE Corporat

Re: [zfs-discuss] unsetting the bootfs property possible? imported a FreeBSD pool

2010-05-25 Thread Andrew Gabriel
few lines above, another test (for a valid bootfs name) does get bypassed in the case of clearing the property. Don't know if that alone would fix it. -- Andrew Gabriel | Solaris Systems Architect Email: andrew.gabr...@oracle.com Mobile: +44 7720 598213 Oracle Pre-Sales Guillemont Park | M

Re: [zfs-discuss] [ZIL device brainstorm] intel x25-M G2 has ram cache?

2010-05-24 Thread Andrew Gabriel
if NV ZIL. Trouble is that no other operating systems or filesystems work this well with such relatively tiny amounts of NV storage, so such a hardware solution is very ZFS-specific. -- Andrew Gabriel | Solaris Systems Architect Email: andrew.gabr...@oracle.com Mobile: +44 7720 598213 Oracl

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs question

2010-05-20 Thread Andrew Gabriel
up on the ARC (memory) anyway. If you don't have enough RAM for this to help, then you could add more memory, and/or an SSD as a L2ARC device ("cache" device in zpool command line terms). -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zf

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposition of a new zpool property.

2010-03-22 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Robert Milkowski wrote: To add my 0.2 cents... I think starting/stopping scrub belongs to cron, smf, etc. and not to zfs itself. However what would be nice to have is an ability to freeze/resume a scrub and also limit its rate of scrubbing. One of the reason is that when working in SAN envi

Re: [zfs-discuss] When to Scrub..... ZFS That Is

2010-03-13 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Thomas Burgess wrote: I scrub once a week. I think the general rule is: once a week for consumer grade drives once a month for enterprise grade drives. and before any planned operation which will reduce your redundancy/resilience, such as swapping out a disk for a new larger one when growin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Intel SASUC8I - worth every penny

2010-03-12 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Dedhi Sujatmiko wrote: As a user of el-cheapo US$18 SIL3114, I managed to make the system freeze continuously when one of SATA cable got disconnected. I am using 8 disks RAIDZ2 driven by 2 x SIL3114 System is still able to answer the ping, but SSH and console are no longer responsive, obviously

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot recycle freezes system activity

2010-03-04 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Gary Mills wrote: We have an IMAP e-mail server running on a Solaris 10 10/09 system. It uses six ZFS filesystems built on a single zpool with 14 daily snapshots. Every day at 11:56, a cron command destroys the oldest snapshots and creates new ones, both recursively. For about four minutes ther

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool vdev imbalance

2010-02-28 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Ian Collins wrote: I was running zpool iostat on a pool comprising a stripe of raidz2 vdevs that appears to be writing slowly and I notice a considerable imbalance of both free space and write operations. The pool is currently feeding a tape backup while receiving a large filesystem. Is this

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help, my zone's dataset has disappeared!

2010-02-26 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Jesse Reynolds wrote: Does ZFS store a log file of all operations applied to it? It feels like someone has gained access and run 'zfs destroy mailtmp' to me, but then again it could just be my own ineptitude. Yes... zpool history rpool -- Andr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pool import with failed ZIL device now possible ?

2010-02-16 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Darren J Moffat wrote: You have done a risk analysis and if you are happy that your NTFS filesystems could be corrupt on those ZFS ZVOLs if you lose data then you could consider turning off the ZIL. Note though that it isn't just those ZVOLs you are serving to Windows that lose access to a ZIL

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot receive new filesystem stream: invalid backup stream

2010-02-12 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Darren J Moffat wrote: On 12/02/2010 09:55, Andrew Gabriel wrote: Can anyone suggest how I can get around the above error when sending/receiving a ZFS filesystem? It seems to fail when about 2/3rds of the data have been passed from send to recv. Is it possible to get more diagnostics out? You

[zfs-discuss] cannot receive new filesystem stream: invalid backup stream

2010-02-12 Thread Andrew Gabriel
m is currently running build 125 and receiving system something approximating to 133, but I've had the same problem with this filesystem for all builds I've used over the last 2 years. -- Cheers Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zf

Re: [zfs-discuss] Impact of an enterprise class SSD on ZIL performance

2010-02-04 Thread Andrew Gabriel
hen I demonstrate this on the SSD/Flash/Turbocharge Discovery Days I run the UK from time to time (the name changes over time;-). -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] verging OT: how to buy J4500 w/o overpriced drives

2010-02-03 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Brandon High wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 3:13 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: Which is to say that 45 drives is really quite a lot for a HOME NAS. Particularly when you then think about backing up that data. The origin of this thread was how to buy a J4500 (48 drive chassis). One thin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of partition based SWAP vs. ZFS zvol SWAP

2010-01-27 Thread Andrew Gabriel
LICON, RAY (ATTPB) wrote: Thanks for the reply. In many situations, the hardware design isn't up to me and budgets tend to dictate everything these days. True, nobody wants to swap, but the question is "if" you had to -- what design serves you best. Independent swap slices or putting it all unde

Re: [zfs-discuss] Performance of partition based SWAP vs. ZFS zvol SWAP

2010-01-27 Thread Andrew Gabriel
so it doesn't need to swap. Then it doesn't matter what the performance of the swap device is. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] 2gig file limit on ZFS?

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Michelle Knight wrote: Fair enough. So where do you think my problem lies? Do you think it could be a limitation of the driver I loaded to read the ext3 partition? Without knowing exactly what commands you typed and exactly what error messages they produced, and which directories/files are

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive as backup - reliability?

2010-01-21 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Robert Milkowski wrote: I think one should actually compare whole solutions - including servers, fc infrastructure, tape drives, robots, software costs, rack space, ... Servers like x4540 are ideal for zfs+rsync backup solution - very compact, good $/GB ratio, enough CPU power for its capacity

Re: [zfs-discuss] "NearLine SAS"?

2010-01-19 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Edward Ned Harvey wrote: A poster in another forum mentioned that Seagate (and Hitachi, amongst others) is now selling something labeled as "NearLine SAS" storage (e.g. Seagate's NL35 series). Industry has moved again. Better get used to it. Nearline SAS is a replacement for SATA. It's a low

Re: [zfs-discuss] hard drive choice, TLER/ERC/CCTL

2009-12-10 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Mark Grant wrote: Yeah, this is my main concern with moving from my cheap Linux server with no redundancy to ZFS RAID on OpenSolaris; I don't really want to have to pay twice as much to buy the 'enterprise' disks which appear to be exactly the same drives with a flag set in the firmware to lim

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on ssd

2009-12-05 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: The interesting thing for the future will be non-volatile main memory, with the primary concern being how to firewall damage due to a bug. You would be able to turn your computer off and back on and be working again almost instantaneously. Some of us are old enough (just)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Heads up: SUNWzfs-auto-snapshot obsoletion in snv 128

2009-11-23 Thread Andrew Gabriel
export/zones/s...@20091122 0 - 5.21G - a20$ All the ones with USED = 0 haven't changed. Don't know if this info is available without spinning up disks though. -- Andrew Gabriel ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-dis

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver/scrub times?

2009-11-22 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: Yesterday's integration of 6678033 resilver code should prefetch as part of changeset 74e8c05021f1 (which should be in build 129 when it comes out) may improve scrub times, particularly if you have a large number of small files and a large number of snapshots. I recentl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Resilver/scrub times?

2009-11-22 Thread Andrew Gabriel
Colin Raven wrote: Hi all! I've decided to take the "big jump" and build a ZFS home filer (although it might also do "other work" like caching DNS, mail, usenet, bittorent and so forth). YAY! I wonder if anyone can shed some light on how long a pool scrub would take on a fairly decent rig. Th

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