Re: [zfs-discuss] Oracle to no longer support ZFS on OpenSolaris?

2010-04-20 Thread Don Turnbull
Not to be a conspiracy nut but anyone anywhere could have registered that gmail account and supplied that answer. It would be a lot more believable from Mr Kay's Oracle or Sun account. On 4/20/2010 9:40 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 13:57 +0100, Dominic Kay wrote: Oracle

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing faulty disk in ZFS pool

2009-08-06 Thread Don Turnbull
If her adds the spare and then manually forces a replace, it will take no more time than any other way. I do this quite frequently and without needing the scrub which does take quite a lot of time. cindy.swearin...@sun.com wrote: Hi Andreas, Good job for using a mirrored configuration. :-)

Re: [zfs-discuss] Replacing faulty disk in ZFS pool

2009-08-06 Thread Don Turnbull
I believe there are a couple of ways that work. The commands I've always used are to attach the new disk as a spare (if not already) and then replace the failed disk with the spare. I don't know if there are advantages or disavantages but I also have never had a problem doing it this way. A

Re: [zfs-discuss] Fed up with ZFS causing data loss

2009-08-03 Thread Don Turnbull
This may have been mentioned elsewhere and, if so, I apologize for repeating. Is it possible your difficulty here is with the Marvell driver and not, strictly speaking, ZFS? The Solaris Marvell driver has had many, MANY bug fixes and continues to this day to be supported by IDR patches and o

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

2009-07-07 Thread Don Turnbull
Thanks for the suggestion! We've fiddled with this in the past. Our app is 32k instead of 8k blocks and it is data warehousing so the I/O model is a lot more long sequential reads generally. Changing the blocksize has very little effect on us. I'll have to look at fsync; hadn't considered t

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

2009-07-07 Thread Don Turnbull
I work with Greenplum which is essentially a number of Postgres database instances clustered together. Being postgres, the data is held in a lot of individual files which can be each fairly big (hundreds of MB or several GB) or very small (50MB or less). We've noticed a performance difference