Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs performance so bad on my system

2008-04-29 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
For example I am trying to copy 1.4G file from my /var/mail to /d/d1 directory which is zfs file system on mypool2 pool. It takes 25 minutes to copy it, while copying it to tmp directory only takes few seconds. Whats wrong with this? Why its so long to copy that wile to my zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-25 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 09:46 -0700, Rick wrote: Recently I've installed SXCE nv86 for the first time in hopes of getting rid of my linux file server and using Solaris and ZFS for my new file server. After setting up a simple ZFS mirror of 2 disks, I enabled smb and set about moving over all

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, CIFS, slow write speed

2008-04-25 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
I didn't cross post the following, it was sent only to the cifs discuss list: nge. Onboard nvidia nforce 570 Ultra MCP onboard gigabit nic for the Asus M2N-E board. nge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: nge0: Using FIXED interrupt type mac: [ID 469746 kern.info] NOTICE: nge0 registered mac:

Re: [zfs-discuss] backup for x4500?

2008-04-21 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
I haven't done that particular comparison. (zfs send isn't useful for backup - doesn't span tapes, doesn't hold an index of the files.) But I have compared it against various varieties of tar for moving data between machines, and the performance of 'zfs send' wasn't particularly good - I

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Administration

2008-04-11 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
It would be nice to have a single place to define keep the 6 most recent hourly snaps, then a nightly for the next 7 days Whether the snapshots are created/removed from within the ZFS stack, or from a cron job that reads the config doesn't matter, but having the configuration tied to the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Preferred backup s/w

2008-02-22 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 21:00 +, Gavin Maltby wrote: On 02/21/08 16:31, Rich Teer wrote: What is the current preferred method for backing up ZFS data pools, preferably using free ($0.00) software, and assuming that access to individual files (a la ufsbackup/ufsrestore) is required?

Re: [zfs-discuss] five megabytes per second with Microsoft iSCSI initiator (2.06)

2008-02-20 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
Over a pretty quiet Gigabit link, 3x 10k SCSI disks, all on the same controller, in a RAIDZ pool exported using shareiscsi: # time dd if=/dev/urandom of=/var/log/maillogs/test bs=1024 count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out real0m6.958s user0m0.065s sys 0m6.893s

[zfs-discuss] ls on directory in ZFS f/s unusably slow

2008-02-05 Thread Chris Linton-Ford
Hi all, I posted to osol-discuss with this but got no resolution - I'm hoping a more focused mailing list will yield better results. I have a ZFS filesystem (zpool version 8, on SXDE 9/07) on which there was a directory that contained a large number of files (~2 million). After deleting these