Re: [zfs-discuss] How to create a checkpoint?

2010-11-09 Thread Bryan Allen
Actually he likely means Boot Environments. On OpenSolaris or Solaris 11 you would use the pkg/ beadm commands. Previous Solaris used Live Upgrade. See the documentation for IPS. -- bdha On Nov 9, 2010, at 2:56, Tomas Ă–gren wrote: > On 08 November, 2010 - Peter Taps sent me these 0,7K bytes:

Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshots as versioning tool

2010-03-23 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2010-03-23 16:09:05, Harry Putnam wrote: | | Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:09:05 -0500 | From: Harry Putnam | To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org | Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] snapshots as versioning tool | | Matt Cowger

Re: [zfs-discuss] Whoops, accidentally created a new slog instead of mirroring

2010-02-25 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2010-02-25 12:05:03, Ray Van Dolson wrote: | | Thanks Cindy. I need to stay on Solaris 10 for the time being, so I'm | guessing I'd have to Live boot into an OpenSolaris build, fix my pool | then hope it re-impor

Re: [zfs-discuss] performance problem with Mysql

2010-02-20 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2010-02-20 08:45:23, Charles Hedrick wrote: | | I hadn't considered stress testing the disks. Obviously that's a good idea. We'll look at doing something in May, when we have the next opportunity to take down th

Re: [zfs-discuss] performance problem with Mysql

2010-02-20 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2010-02-20 08:12:53, Charles Hedrick wrote: | | We recently moved a Mysql database from NFS (Netapp) to a local disk array (J4200 with SAS disks). Shortly after moving production, the system effectively hung. CP

[zfs-discuss] Performance metrics and benchmarking of an OpenSolarisTM NFS fileserver

2010-02-10 Thread Bryan Allen
Just saw this go by my twitter stream: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~delaat/sne-2009-2010/p02/report.pdf via @legeza -- bda cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mai

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

2010-02-01 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2010-02-01 23:01:33, Tim Cook wrote: | | On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:58 PM, matthew patton wrote: | | > what with the home NAS conversations, what's the trick to buy a J4500 | > without any drives? SUN like every

Re: [zfs-discuss] Large scale ZFS deployments out there (>200 disks)

2010-01-29 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2010-01-29 10:36:29, Richard Elling wrote: | | Nit: Solaris 10 u9 is 10/03 or 10/04 or 10/05, depending on what you read. | Solaris 10 u8 is 11/09. Nit: S10u8 is 10/09. | Scrub I/O is given the lowest priority

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

2010-01-21 Thread Bryan Allen
| On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 01:55:53PM -0800, Michelle Knight wrote: > Anything else I can get that would help this? split(1)? :-) -- bda cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensola

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

2010-01-21 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2010-01-21 13:06:00, Michelle Knight wrote: | | Aplogies for not explaining myself correctly, I'm copying from ext3 on to ZFS - it appears to my amateur eyes, that it is ZFS that is having the problem. ZFS is qu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backing up a ZFS pool

2010-01-15 Thread Bryan Allen
Have a simple rolling ZFS replication script: http://dpaste.com/145790/ -- bda cyberpunk is dead. long live cyberpunk. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] PSARC recover files?

2009-11-09 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2009-11-09 12:18:04, Ellis, Mike wrote: | | Maybe to create snapshots "after the fact" as a part of some larger disaster recovery effort. | (What did my pool/file-system look like at 10am?... Say 30-minutes befor

Re: [zfs-discuss] pool as root of zone

2009-10-15 Thread Bryan Allen
> Hank Ratzesberger wrote: > Hi, I'm Hank and I'm recovering from a crash attempting to make a zfs > pool the root/mountpoint of a zone install. > > I want to make the zone appear as a completely configurable zfs file system > to the root user of the zone. Apparently that is not exactly the way

Re: [zfs-discuss] million files in single directory

2009-10-03 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2009-10-03 18:50:58, Jeff Haferman wrote: | | I did an rsync of this directory structure to another filesystem | [lustre-based, FWIW] and it took about 24 hours to complete. We have | done rsyncs on other directo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Another user looses his pool (10TB) in this case and 40

2009-07-31 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2009-07-31 17:00:54, Jason A. Hoffman wrote: | | I have thousands and thousands and thousands of zpools. I started | collecting such zpools back in 2005. None have been lost. I don't have thousands and thousand

Re: [zfs-discuss] Losts of small files vs fewer big files

2009-07-07 Thread Bryan Allen
Have you set the recordsize for the filesystem to the blocksize Postgres is using (8K)? Note this has to be done before any files are created. Other thoughts: Disable postgres's fsync, enable filesystem compression if disk I/O is your bottleneck as opposed to CPU. I do this with MySQL and it has p

Re: [zfs-discuss] Why is Solaris 10 ZFS performance so terrible?

2009-07-06 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2009-07-07 01:29:11, Andre van Eyssen wrote: | | On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Gary Mills wrote: | | >As for a business case, we just had an extended and catastrophic | >performance degradation that was the result of two Z

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-03-30 Thread Bryan Allen
| > FWIW, it looks like someone at Sun saw the complaints in this thread and or | > (more likely) had enough customer complaints. ??It appears you can buy the | > tray independently now. ??Although, it's $500 (so they're apparently made | > entirely of diamond and platinum). ??In Sun marketing's de

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I "mirror" zfs rpool, x4500?

2009-03-18 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2009-03-18 10:14:26, Richard Elling wrote: | | >Just an observation, but it sort of defeats the purpose of buying sun | >hardware with sun software if you can't even get a "this is how your | >drives will map" o

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I "mirror" zfs rpool, x4500?

2009-03-17 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2009-03-17 16:37:25, Mark J Musante wrote: | | >Then mirror the VTOC from the first (zfsroot) disk to the second: | > | ># prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s2 | ># zpool attach -f rpool c1

Re: [zfs-discuss] How do I "mirror" zfs rpool, x4500?

2009-03-17 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2009-03-17 16:13:27, Toby Thain wrote: | | Right, but what if you didn't realise on that screen that you needed | to select both to make a mirror? The wording isn't very explicit, in | my opinion. Yesterday I

Re: [zfs-discuss] GSoC 09 zfs ideas?

2009-02-28 Thread Bryan Allen
I for one would like an "interactive" attribute for zpools and filesystems, specifically for destroy. The existing behavior (no prompt) could be the default, but all filesystems would inherit from the zpool's attrib. so I'd only need to set interactive=on for the pool itself, not for each filesyst

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-02 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2009-02-02 09:46:49, casper@sun.com wrote: | | And think of all the money it costs to stock and distribute that | separate part. (And our infrastructure is still expensive; too expensive | for a $5 part) Fa

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2009-02-01 20:55:46, Richard Elling wrote: | | The astute observer will note that the bracket for the X41xx family | works elsewhere. For example, | http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/validateUser.do?target=Sys

Re: [zfs-discuss] j4200 drive carriers

2009-02-01 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2009-02-01 16:29:59, Richard Elling wrote: | | The drives that Sun sells will come with the correct bracket. | Ergo, there is no reason to sell the bracket as a separate | item unless the customer wishes to place

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with IMAP(Cyrus)

2008-12-10 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2008-12-10 16:48:37, Jonny Gerold wrote: | | Hello, | I was wondering if there are any problems with cyrus and ZFS? Or have | all the problems of yester-release been ironed out? Yester-release? I've been using

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on 32bit.

2008-08-07 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2008-08-07 03:53:04, Marc Bevand wrote: | | Bryan, Thomas: these hangs of 32-bit Solaris under heavy (fs, I/O) loads are a | well known problem. They are caused by memory contention in the kernel heap. | Check

[zfs-discuss] ZFS on 32bit.

2008-08-06 Thread Bryan Allen
Good afternoon, I have a ~600GB zpool living on older Xeons. The system has 8GB of RAM. The pool is hanging off two LSI Logic SAS3041X-Rs (no RAID configured). When I put a moderate amount of load on the zpool (like, say, copying many files locally, or deleting a large number of ZFS fs), the sys

Re: [zfs-discuss] Avoiding performance decrease when pool usage is over 80%

2008-02-12 Thread Bryan Allen
+-- | On 2008-02-12 02:40:33, Thomas Liesner wrote: | | Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Avoiding performance decrease when pool usage is | over 80% | | Nobody out there who ever had problems with low diskspace? Only in share

Re: [zfs-discuss] HAMMER

2007-10-16 Thread Bryan Allen
On Oct 16, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Jonathan Loran wrote: > > We use compression on almost all of our zpools. We see very little > if any I/O slowdown because of this, and you get free disk space. > In fact, I believe read I/O gets a boost from this, since > decompression is cheap compared to nor